{"id":379898,"date":"2025-03-08T00:36:16","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T19:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/canada-unemployment-rate-holds-steady-at-6-6-in-february-vs-6-7-expected-crypto-news\/"},"modified":"2025-03-08T00:44:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T19:14:19","slug":"canada-unemployment-rate-holds-steady-at-6-6-in-february-vs-6-7-expected-crypto-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/canada-unemployment-rate-holds-steady-at-6-6-in-february-vs-6-7-expected-crypto-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada Unemployment Rate holds steady at 6.6% in February vs. 6.7% expected &#8211; Crypto News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"fxs_article_content\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Unemployment Rate in Canada remained unchanged at 6.6% in February.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>USD\/CAD trades in positive territory above 1.4350 after the data.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Unemployment Rate in Canada held steady at 6.6% in February,\u00a0Statistics Canada reported on Friday. This reading came in slightly better than the market expectation of 6.7%. In this period, the Employment Change was 1.1K, below the January print and the market expectation of 76K and 20K, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Total hours worked fell 1.3% in the month, but were up 0.5% compared with 12 months earlier,&#8221; the press release read. &#8220;Average hourly wages among employees were up 3.8% (+$1.32 to $36.14) on a year-over-year basis in February, following growth of 3.5% in January (not seasonally adjusted).&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"fxs_headline_medium\">Market reaction<\/h2>\n<p>USD\/CAD gathers recovery following this report and was last seen rising 0.5% on the day at 1.4368.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Unemployment Rate in Canada remained unchanged at 6.6% in February. USD\/CAD trades in positive territory above 1.4350 after the data. The Unemployment Rate in Canada held steady at 6.6% in February,\u00a0Statistics Canada reported on Friday. This reading came in slightly better than the market expectation of 6.7%. In this period, the Employment Change was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379906,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[201,248,496,251,246,257,843,497,255,250,252,247,253,249,256,254],"class_list":["post-379898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-others","tag-blockchain","tag-bsc","tag-canada","tag-chainlink","tag-coin","tag-cryptocurrency","tag-economicindicator","tag-employment","tag-gta","tag-looks-rare","tag-oracle","tag-polygon","tag-quickswap","tag-safe-moon","tag-wallet","tag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":379907,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379898\/revisions\/379907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}