As interest rates rise, consumers and businesses will find it more costly to borrow to invest and spend, and aggregate demand will fall further.

Unions give employees a voice – both as individuals and as a collective – that is independent of their employer.

Britain's jobless rate rose for the first time since late 2020 and other measures of the country's hot labour market cooled, potentially easing inflation worries at the Bank of England which is due to raise rates again this week.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell used his first four years as the world's top central banker to reshape U.S.

Quebec's plans to attract more French-speaking newcomers are unnerving some business owners who say they need immigrants from varied backgrounds to address a tight labor market in the Canadian province.

Shareholders in Sainsbury's will get to vote on a resolution at next month's annual meeting calling for Britain's second biggest supermarket group to commit to paying the so-called real living wage to all its workers by July 2023.

Before the pandemic, Britain enjoyed steady labour force growth and high rates of participation.

Total employment remained below its pre-pandemic level, with job vacancies at a record-high of almost 1.3 million at the end of April.

There are concerns the Fed could raise rates too high and choke off economic growth

The tech-heavy Nasdaq has declined 17.1% year-to-date, compared with a 9.8% drop in the S&P 500 and a 6.3% fall in the blue-chip Dow.

The trade deficit accelerated 22.3% to $109.8 billion in March amid a record increase in imports.

The Fed is the world's most influential central bank, and its policies have implications for lending globally.

Bitcoin lending is undoubtedly changing the loans sector.

Britain's unemployment rate stands at 4.6 percent, down from a pandemic-peak of 5.2 percent at the end of last year.

The FOMC will convene as the economy sends mixed signals about two of the central bank's top priorities: employment and prices.

Biden's efforts received a big endorsement, when IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva offered her support for the plan, and rejected the notion it was excessive.

Online gambling is a phenomenal industry growing at an accelerated pace thanks to technological innovation like mobile gaming and increasing interests by people from different nations such as Finlands Nettikasinot sector.

Weekly applications for jobless benefits remain higher than the worst of the 2008-2010 global financial crisis.

It is quite urgent for the government to implement measures that would address poverty and deprivation during pregnancy.

The two-day event concludes amid a renewed push by a top lawmaker in Washington to agree on an additional spending bill to prop up the economy.

All three main indexes in New York suffered hefty selling.

The UK economy contracted by 2.2 percent in the first quarter.

The pound rallied on the update, which included news that the BoE held its main interest rate at a record-low 0.1 percent.

Layoffs caused by the coronavirus pandemic in the US passed 45.7 million last week.

While tensions between China and the US continue to play in the background, the general mood at the start of June has been upbeat.

The Treasury has forecast the unemployment rate will reach 10 percent in the June quarter.

Employment in Europe plummeted for the second month running.

The OBR warned that the impact of the pandemic could initially be a bigger shock to the UK economy than the 2008 financial crisis and even the world wars.

Britain's separation from the European Union with a "no deal Brexit" would seriously hurt Germany's job sector. Hardest hit will be the German auto, consumer goods, and banking sectors.

Imports climbed 1.5 percent to a record $266.6 billion in August, led by an influx of telecommunications equipment and clothing.