{"id":1040,"date":"2025-07-11T08:29:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T08:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/1040\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T08:29:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T08:29:03","slug":"economists-expect-jobs-market-flatlined-unemployment-rose-in-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/1040\/","title":{"rendered":"Economists expect jobs market flatlined, unemployment rose in June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA \u2014 Statistics Canada is set to report employment figures for June today. A Reuters poll of economists expect the pace of hiring stalled in June, with no change in employment predicted, according to LSEG Data &amp; Analytics.<\/p>\n<p>OTTAWA \u2014 Statistics Canada is set to report employment figures for June today.<\/p>\n<p>A Reuters poll of economists expect the pace of hiring stalled in June, with no change in employment predicted, according to LSEG Data &amp; Analytics.<\/p>\n<p>Economists also expect the jobless rate rose a tick to 7.1 per cent last month. <\/p>\n<p>Trade-sensitive sectors such as manufacturing and transportation have faced job losses in recent months as Canada&#8217;s tariff dispute with the United States hampers the economy.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, U.S. President Donald Trump doubled tariffs on steel and aluminum to 50 per cent and signalled this week that he intends to levy matching tariffs on copper imports.<\/p>\n<p>The June jobs numbers will be the last look the Bank of Canada gets at the labour market ahead of its next interest rate decision on July 30.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 11, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA \u2014 Statistics Canada is set to report employment figures for June today. A Reuters poll of economists&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[28,134],"class_list":{"0":"post-1040","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-jobs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}