Canadian Unemployment Rate Rose to 6.4% in June as Jobs Market Stalls

Canadian Unemployment Rate Rose to 6.4% in June as Jobs Market Stalls
A steel worker builds a structure in Ottawa on March 5, 2018. The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick
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The Canadian job market stalled in June as the economy lost 1,400 jobs and the unemployment rate climbed to its highest level in more than two years, bolstering the case for further interest rate cuts by the Bank of Canada.

Statistics Canada said on July 5 the unemployment rate came in at 6.4 percent for the month, up from 6.2 percent in May, as the size of the labour force grew.