Friday, August 05, 2005

Quick Overview

  • Employers added 207,000 workers to payrolls in July and the unemployment rate remained at 5%, the Labor Department said Friday.

  • Overall rail freight traffic rose 1.3% for the week ended July 30 compared with the same week last year, and intermodal volume continued to increase at a greater rate, the Association of American Railroads said.

  • Industrial production in Germany improved 1.4% in June, stronger than expected.

  • Japan said that its index of leading indicators increased from 36.4 to 60.0 in June.

  • Canada's unemployment rate increased from 6.7% to 6.8% in July while the number of jobs improved by 5,900.

  • Brazil's industrial output rose 1.6 percent in June from the previous month.

  • An indicator of Chile's economic activity jumped 6.4 percent in June compared with a year earlier.

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