Swedish unemployment stayed unchanged last month as companies have cut jobs to cope with a strengthening krona and faltering demand from the recession-burdened euro area.
Seasonally adjusted unemployment was unchanged at 8.4 percent from the previous month, Stockholm-based Statistics Sweden said today. The rate was predicted to fall to 8.3 percent, according to the median estimate of nine economists surveyed by Bloomberg. The non-seasonally adjusted rate fell to 8.7 percent from 8.8 percent.
Sweden’s government should continue to “inject energy” into the Swedish economy next year and probably also in 2015 to fight unemployment caused by faltering demand from Europe, Finance Minister Anders Borg said last week. The central bank last month delayed the timing of a planned rate increase, citing a strengthening currency and an inability by companies to raise prices.
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via Swedish Unemployment Unchanged in April as Jobs Decline – Bloomberg.
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