{"id":68328,"date":"2025-08-14T06:15:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T06:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/68328\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T06:15:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T06:15:08","slug":"employment-rises-in-july-jobless-rate-falls-to-4-2-per-cent-ampols-1-billion-eg-service-station-buy-westpac-surges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/68328\/","title":{"rendered":"Employment rises in July, jobless rate falls to 4.2 per cent; Ampol\u2019s $1 billion EG service station buy; Westpac surges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Want to get this in your inbox at lunchtime every weekday? Financial Review subscribers can sign up for <a href=\"http:\/\/join.afr.com\/thebrief\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Brief newsletter here<\/a>. Plus start your day with our <a href=\"http:\/\/join.afr.com\/beforethebell\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Before the Bell newsletter<\/a> and read a full wrap of the day\u2019s news in <a href=\"http:\/\/join.afr.com\/marketwrap\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Market Wrap<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In today\u2019s news, the jobless rate falls to 4.2 per cent, Ampol is poised to buy a service station portfolio it missed out on a decade ago, and a surge in Westpac\u2019s profit and share price comes with caution.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Want to get this in your inbox at lunchtime every weekday? Financial Review subscribers can sign up for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[45,49,48,124],"class_list":["post-68328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jobs","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-jobs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68328","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=68328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}