US unemployment figures hold steady as labour market stays strong

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US jobs have remained plentiful and the economy has forged on thanks to strong consumer spending.

Already a subscriber?The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits didn’t change last week as the labour market continues to defy efforts by the Federal Reserve to cool hiring.

The four-week average of claims, which softens some of the weekly volatility, was also unchanged at 214,500. The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark borrowing rate 11 times beginning in March of 2022 in a bid to stifle the four-decade high inflation that took hold after the economy rebounded from the COVID-19 recession of 2020. The Fed’s intention was to loosen the labour market and cool wage growth, which it said contributed to persistently high inflation.

 

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