Canada lost 84K jobs in February; unemployment rises to 6.7%

Canada’s labour market lost a net 83,900 jobs in February and the unemployment rate increased to 6.7 per…
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Bond Traders Defy Fed and Spark Heated Debate on Wall Street

(Bloomberg) — The bond market’s reaction to the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate cuts has been highly unusual. By some…
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@ketanjoshi.co The ambiguities of percentages. Does this mean they missed their target by 7% of the target, i.e achieving 19.53% instead of 21%? That would class as a very good effort. Or does it mean they missed by 7 percentage points, achieving 14% instead of 21%. While much better than nothing this would be a lackluster effort.

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