{"id":262374,"date":"2025-11-05T02:28:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T02:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/262374\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T02:28:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T02:28:07","slug":"new-zealand-jobless-rate-hits-nine-year-high-amid-weak-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/262374\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand Jobless Rate Hits Nine-Year High Amid Weak Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">New Zealand\u2019s jobless rate rose to the highest in nine years in the third quarter as the weak economy made firms reluctant to take on new workers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Unemployment climbed to 5.3% from 5.2% in the second quarter, Statistics New Zealand said Wednesday in Wellington. That matched economists\u2019 median estimate and was the highest since the fourth quarter of 2016. Employment was unchanged from the previous three months, weaker than the estimated 0.1% increase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Zealand\u2019s jobless rate rose to the highest in nine years in the third quarter as the weak&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[4815,114739,45,49,48,548,46,2443,6680,4990,5441,80515,44426,80732,125,3275],"class_list":{"0":"post-262374","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-august","9":"tag-australian-dollar-spot","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-economics","14":"tag-economy","15":"tag-employment","16":"tag-immigration","17":"tag-monetary-policy","18":"tag-new-zealand","19":"tag-new-zealand-dollar-spot","20":"tag-reserve-bank","21":"tag-statistics-new-zealand","22":"tag-unemployment","23":"tag-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}