Americas February 2007

Posted by Scriptaty | 12:08 AM

  • Canada’s December unemployment rate fell 0.2 percent from November to a 30-year low of 6.1 percent. The rate was 0.4 less than December 2005 and helped Canada enjoy its 14th straight year of employment increases. “Over the course of 2006, seven provinces hit record high employment rates while six reached 30-year record low unemployment rates,” Statistics Canada said in an online report.

  • Brazil’s November unemployment rate dropped 0.3 percent to 9.8 percent from the previous month, a decline of 0.1 percent from the previous year.

0 comments