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US economy loses jobs for sixth straight month

AFP, Washington
The world's biggest economy lost jobs for a sixth straight month in June as US employers shed 62,000 nonfarm jobs amid a lingering slowdown, a Labor Department report showed Thursday.
The unemployment rate held steady last month at 5.5 percent.
The volume of job losses was slightly worse than the markets had expected, as most economists had predicted that 60,000 posts were cut in June.
"Unemployment is still on a rising trend, payrolls are falling, and there's no light at the end of the tunnel here, so the tax rebates may have pushed up consumer spending, but it doesn't seem to have improved the labor market yet," said Ian Morris, chief US economist at HSBC North America.
Employers started laying off substantia] numbers of workers in January following several years of solid employment gains that were boosted by a booming housing market and confident consumers.
But the job picture has changed dramatically this year amid a lingering housing market slump, a credit squeeze, a sharp downturn on Wall Street and rocketing oil prices which broke above a record 146 dollars a barrel Thursday.
The US economy has shed jobs every month of this year so far, and June's job cuts followed a loss of a revised 62,000 posi tions in May. The government had originally said that 49,000 jobs were cut in May.
HSBC's Morris said the "continued rate of deterioration" in the job market could see the unemployment rate peak above six percent in coming months.
Economists say America's giant economy needs to create about 100,000 jobs every month to absorb new labor market entrants.
Analysts said the weak job reading is likely to pressure the Federal Reserve to keep interest rates on hold at 2.0 percent despite mounting inflation concerns.
"We expect the Federal Reserve to remain on hold on the basis of weak employment among other factors. Markets are pricing in hikes after this summer," said Stephen Gallagher, an economist at Societe Generale.
The central bank had slashed its key base rate aggressively since September in a bid to fire up economic growth, but it put its rate-cutting campaign on hold last month in the face of inflation fears tied to surging oil prices.
US Treasury Secretary' Henry Paulson underlined such concerns Wednesday, saying: "High oil prices will in all likelihood prolong our economic slowdown."
Economic growth improved to 1.0 percent during the first quarter compared with 0.6 percent in the fourth quarter of 2007, but momentum has slowed significantly from the blistering 4.9-percent clip during the third quarter of last year.