The BLS reported this morning,
Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 217,000 in May, and the unemployment rate was unchanged at 6.3 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Employment increased in professional and business services, health care and social assistance, food services and drinking places, and transportation and warehousing.
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The European Central Bank has cut its deposit rate to below zero per cent and introduced other radical measures to fight the threat of deflation. The FT’s Chris Giles and Ferdinando Giugliano discuss what these actions mean.
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President Enrique Peña Nieto’s reformist makeover of Mexico has wowed markets and foreign investors, if not Mexicans. Martin Wolf, chief economics commentator at the Financial Times, talks to the FT’s John Paul Rathbone about the country’s prospects.
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As the European Central Bank considers adopting negative interest rates to counter low eurozone inflation, FT economics editor Chris Giles explains what you need to know about negative interest rates − in 60 seconds.
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