Freddie Mac says average rate on a 30-year mortgage fell to 6.86% this week, the lowest level since early April
McLEAN, Va. (AP) — Freddie Mac says average rate on a 30-year mortgage fell to 6.86% this week, the lowest level since early April.
McLEAN, Va. (AP) — Freddie Mac says average rate on a 30-year mortgage fell to 6.86% this week, the lowest level since early April.
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The Canadian labour market stalled last month, shedding 1,400 jobs.
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks rose to more records Friday after a highly anticipated report on the job market bolstered Wall Street’s hopes that interest rates may soon get easier.
WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s employers delivered another healthy month of hiring in June, adding 206,000 jobs and once again displaying the U.S. economy’s ability to withstand high interest rates.
OTTAWA (Reuters) -Canada's unemployment rate rose to a 29-month high of 6.4%, data showed on Friday, highlighting that people might be losing jobs as the labor market struggles to absorb a rapidly swelling population. The jobs report, which also showed that youth unemployment reached almost a decade high barring the pandemic years, prompted money markets to increase bets of a rate cut by the Bank of Canada this month to around 56% from 40% a day earlier. Economists pointed out that the rising unemployment rate could be indicating that Canada is flirting with recession.
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TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese household spending fell unexpectedly in May as higher prices continued to squeeze consumers' purchasing power, data showed on Friday, complicating the central bank's decision on how soon to raise interest rates. Many analysts expect consumption to rebound in the coming months as big wage hikes offered by companies and a tax break aimed at cushioning the blow from rising living costs reach households. The Bank of Japan (BOJ) will highlight how pay increases are spreading, including at smaller firms, in a report due later this month, sources have told Reuters, a trend that strengthens the case for a near-term interest rate hike.
The June jobs report comes at a crucial moment as economists debate whether the US labor market is still normalizing to pre-pandemic levels or showing the early signs of a broader slowdown.
Before this morning's jobs report, market participants put nearly 70% probability of lower rates in September, according to the CME FedWatch Tool.
TORONTO — Losses in the energy sector led Canada's main stock index lower on Friday, while U.S. stock markets rose to new records.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Union will impose tariffs of up to 37.6% from Friday on imports of electric vehicles made in China, EU officials said, ratcheting up tensions with Beijing in Brussels' largest trade case yet. There is however a four-month window during which the tariffs are provisional and intensive talks are expected to continue between the two sides as Beijing threatens wide-ranging retaliation. The European Commission's provisional duties of between 17.4% and 37.6% without backdating are designed to prevent what its president Ursula von der Leyen has said is a threatened flood of cheap EVs built with state subsidies.
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Canada's services economy moved back into contraction in June as a decline in new business weighed on the sector's performance even as inflation pressures cooled, S&P Global Canada services PMI data showed on Thursday. The headline business activity index fell to 47.1 from 51.1 in May, posting its lowest level since March. "Following a return to growth in May, Canada's services economy slipped back into the moribund trend that has so characterized its performance in the post-pandemic period," Paul Smith, economics director at S&P Global Market Intelligence, said in a statement.
June's unemployment rate in Windsor is the highest in Canada, according to Statistics Canada.In its monthly labour force survey report, the agency said Windsor's unemployment rate came in at 9.1 per cent for June, up from 8.5 per cent in May.Calgary's unemployment is second highest in the country at 8.5 per cent.On a national level, the Canadian economy lost 1,400 jobs in June, pushing the unemployment rate to its highest level in more than two years. The overall unemployment rate rose 0.2 perce
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NEW YORK (Reuters) -The U.S. dollar index stayed slightly lower on Friday after data showed U.S. job growth slowed marginally in June while the unemployment rate rose, underscoring the view the Federal Reserve could begin cutting interest rates in September. Nonfarm U.S. payrolls increased by 206,000 jobs last month, the Labor Department report showed. The unemployment rate rose to 4.1%, slightly higher than the estimated 4.0%.
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