LONDON (AP) — Inflation and unemployment across the 16-country eurozone are on the rise, official figures showed Friday, confirming that the region's economic recovery remains fragile and unbalanced.
The unemployment rate edged up to 10.1 percent in September from 10 percent in August, according to Eurostat, the EU' statistics agency.
Labor market improvements in Germany were offset by higher joblesnness in Ireland, Italy and Spain. Unemployment was particularly dire for the young, with a fifth of people aged under 15 out of a job.
The data "highlights the fact that the eurozone economy is by no means out of the woods," said Howard Archer, economist at IHS Global …
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