Italy’s jobless rate rose more than forecast in September to an all-time high as companies failed to hire amid concerns about the persisting recession, the longest since World War II.
Unemployment (ITMUURS) increased to 12.5 percent from a revised 12.4 percent in August, the Rome-based national statistics office Istat said in a preliminary report today. The September rate, the highest since the data series began in the first quarter of 1977, was above the 12.3 percent median of ten estimates in a Bloomberg survey.
Italy’s economy shrank in the third quarter, prolonging a record slump that began in 2011 and signaling that the euro area’s recovery is bypassing its third-biggest economy, Antonio Golini, the acting chairman of Istat, said this week. He also told an Oct. 29 hearing in Parliament that the nation’s gross domestic product will fall 1.8 percent this year. That’s more than the 1.4 percent contraction the statistics office forecast in May.
via Bloomberg
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