Canada jobless rate holds steady at 6.5%

By Agence France-Presse

Nov 10, 2024 12:12 am

OTTAWA — Canada's unemployment rate held steady at 6.5 percent in October as hiring slowed, the national statistical agency said on Friday.

Some 15,000 net new jobs were created in the month ― half what analysts had forecast, following a decline in the jobless rate of 0.1 percentage points in September.

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