Economics
Portuguese Unemployment Rate Rises for a Second Quarter to 13.7%
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Portugal’s unemployment rate rose for a second quarter in the three months through March as the number of jobless from services businesses increased.
The unemployment rate climbed to 13.7 percent from 13.5 percent in the fourth quarter, and fell from 15.1 percent in the first quarter of 2014, the Lisbon-based National Statistics Institute said on its website.