Unemployment fell by 36,000 in the quarter to March to 2.455 million, a rate of 7.7%, down by 0.1% on the quarter. View full post on All Stories

Economists digested some grim data on the US economy yesterday, with official figures showing that new claims for unemployment benefits had climbed to an eight-month high, while productivity growth slowed over the first three months of the year. View full post on All Stories

TOKYO: Japan’s unemployment rate stood at 4.9 percent in January, unchanged from a month earlier in line with market forecasts, government data showed on Tuesday. View full post on All Stories

The country’s unemployment rate dipped a little below 5 percent to 4.98 percent, hitting a 23 month low. View full post on All Stories

Thousands of Washington’s jobless workers may continue to receive up to 99 weeks of benefits, now that Congress and the president have reauthorized a federal unemployment benefits program that expired last month. View full post on All Stories

With Christmas less than a month away, more than 21,000 Kentuckians are expected to lose their unemployment benefits this week after Congress did not act Tuesday to extend emergency benefits, according to state officials. Within the next eight weeks, the number of Kentuckians affected by the benefit cut will surpass 75,000, said Lanny Brannock, spokesman [...]

Unemployment levels in October remained steady in Maryland and Virginia but dropped in the District, according to federal government data released Tuesday. Maryland’s unemployment rate for a second straight month stayed at 7.4 percent, and Virginia’s remained at 6.8 percent, according to the Bureau View full post on All Stories

The share of Bulgaria’s corporate default loans has reached nearly 19% in October without taking into account the overdrafts, according to Central Bank data. In the last month the default loans are up by BGN 310 M. Compared to October 2009, those loans are up 122%…. View full post on All Stories

Sometimes we fall into urgent emergency needs and there is no cash in hand to topple over the situation. Moreover the need is so urgent that you cannot wait even for the next day, so that you could ask for a help. In such conditions same day cash loans services come handy. These are actually [...]

In today’s world debt consolidation is a common term. We need to maintain a semi-civilized life and for that reason we need to spend some amount of money every month. Sometimes it shoots up from out budget and then we use other means like credit cards or personal loan schemes etc. As long as these [...]

Consumer borrowing increased in September for the first time since January even though the category that includes credit cards dropped for a record 25th-straight month. The rise in credit came from the category that includes student loans. View full post on All Stories