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Greece, Spain Unemployment Rates Still the Highest in the EU

Posted: April 30, 2013 at 7:00 am

Unemployment in the euro area grew again in March, supporting the obvious conclusion that a lack of stimulus, terribly high unemployment and the crippling of the financial and industrial sectors ...
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The Countries with the Highest Unemployment

Posted: April 18, 2013 at 6:25 am

The U.S. unemployment rate continues to tick down, hitting a more than four-year low of just 7.6% in March. In much of Europe, however, the situation is very different. If ...
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Record High European Unemployment — Eurostat

Posted: April 2, 2013 at 7:05 am

Eurostat reported that unemployment in 17-nation euro area continues to hover at 12%. It is worth remembering that, at the depths of the recession, U.S. joblessness barely topped 10% during ...
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Unemployment in the EU Is Still Rising

Posted: November 30, 2012 at 6:59 am

Eurostat reports that unemployment in the euro area has risen again: The euro area (EA17) seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate was 11.7% in October 2012, up from 11.6% in September. The EU271 ...
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Eurozone Unemployment Rate Hits a Record 11.6%

Posted: October 31, 2012 at 8:21 am

The EU statistics agency Eurostat reports that the unemployment rate in the eurozone climbed to a record 11.6% in September. That was up from the 11.5% reported for August, and ...
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Greek Shares Ignoring Very Weak Industrial Production Data

Posted: September 10, 2012 at 12:04 pm

Just last week we featured the nations with the world's highest unemployment rates. Of course it is only logical that Greece would have been in on that list. What was ...
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Nations with the Highest Unemployment Rates

Posted: September 7, 2012 at 9:12 am

This week's economic and market news headlines have been dominated largely by Mario Draghi's bond-buying program and now by an official unemployment rate of 8.1% with only 96,000 payrolls added in the ...
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Eurozone Joblessness at All-Time High

Posted: August 31, 2012 at 8:38 am

The unemployment rate for the 17 member nations of the eurozone did not change in July, holding steady at 11.3%. What did change was the raw number of unemployed, which ...
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Record Unemployment Level in Greece

Posted: August 9, 2012 at 8:04 am

Unemployment in Greece hit a record 23.1% in May, a rise of 6.5% from May 2011. Even worse, among people less than 25 years old, the rate is 54.9%. Just ...
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Why America’s Financial Future Is Far Better Than Europe’s

Posted: December 28, 2011 at 6:27 am

A number of economists believe the U.S. debt burden, budget problems, recession and lack of growth will soon be the same as those now facing many EU nations. This would ...
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