Canada created 27 000 new jobs in August

Canada surprising create 27 000 new jobs in August, the private sector, but the level of unemployment in the country increased, government figures show, quoted by AFP.
Analysts predicted a loss of 15 000 jobs in August after losing 44 500 in the last month. Unemployment last month rose by 0.1 percent to 8.7 percent, according to the Canadian Bureau of Statistics. After a peak in unemployment in October 2008, a total of 387 Canada cut 000 jobs after the economy fell into recession. Loss of jobs, however, decreased significantly in the last five months.

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