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verfasst von Sascha, 07.09.2001, 14:53

U.S. unemployment jumps

<font size=5>Rate hits 4.9 percent, highest in four years, as payrolls sink 113,000</font>

September 7, 2001: 8:37 a.m. ET

NEW YORK (CNNfn) - <font color="#FF0000">The U.S. unemployment rate jumped in August to the highest rate in four years</font>, the government said Friday, as <font color="#FF0000">employers cut far more jobs than private economists had expected</font>, pointing to continuing weakness in the world's largest economy.

The unemployment rate rose to 4.9 percent in August from 4.5 percent in July, while employers cut 113,000 jobs outside the farm sector, compared with a revised gain of 13,000 jobs in July, the Labor Department reported. <font color="#FF0000">Economists surveyed by Briefing.com expected an unemployment rate of 4.6 percent and job cuts of only 45,000</font>.

<font color="#FF0000">The unemployment rate was the highest since a 4.9 percent reading in September 1997</font>.

The Federal Reserve has cut interest rates seven times so far this year in a bid to keep the economic slowdown from turning into a recession.

U.S. stock futures sank as investors continued to worry about the health of the economy. Meanwhile, U.S. Treasury bond prices rose, sending bond market yields lower, as investors bet the Fed would cut rates further.

<font color="#FF0000">The beleaguered manufacturing sector lost 141,000 jobs in August, the biggest monthly drop of the year, bringing total cuts in the sector to 1 million since July 2000</font>.

Quelle: http://cnnfn.cnn.com/2001/09/07/economy/economy/[/b]

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