Most if not all central banks are tasked with maintaining price stability and full employment. This section looks at recent employment trends and what they might mean for monetary policy around the world.
On the whole, labour markets in key global economies continued to improve. Brazil’s unemployment rate unexpectedly fell in December, though it is hard to conclude at this point that this is definitively good news in light of rising inflation and the nasty recession that Brazil is experiencing currently.
Published in Investment Letter, February 2016
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