MEDI1TV Afrique : JT Economie - 05/11/2024
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00:00Hello and welcome to the Média1 economic news.
00:12We start in Morocco with the situation of the labor market.
00:16The unemployment rate has slightly increased between the third quarter of 2023 and that of 2024,
00:22from 13.5% to 13.6%
00:26recording an increase of 0.4 points in rural areas
00:30and a stagnation of 17% in urban areas.
00:33According to the recent report of the High Commissioner for Planning,
00:37the number of unemployed has increased by 58,000 people
00:40between the third quarter of the previous year and that of 2024,
00:45from 1,625,000 to 1,683,000 unemployed,
00:51which corresponds to an increase of 4%.
00:54This increase resulting from an increase of 42,000 unemployed in urban areas
00:59and 16,000 in rural areas.
01:02By sector of activity, the sector of public buildings and works
01:05is the most affected by underemployment,
01:08recording an important increase with 1 point,
01:11from 18.9% to 19.9%,
01:15followed by the agriculture, forest and fishing sector
01:18with 0.7 points, from 11.2% to 11.9%.
01:24We still remain with the latest figures of the HCP
01:27concerning the situation of the labor market.
01:30Between the third quarter of the previous year and that of 2024,
01:34the volume of employment in Morocco has increased by 213,000 jobs.
01:38By type of employment, 262,000 paid jobs have been created,
01:43resulting in an increase of 218,000 in urban areas
01:47and 45,000 in rural areas.
01:50The HCP also states that between the third quarter of 2023
01:55and the same period of 2024,
01:58the rate of activity has increased nationally from 43.2% to 43.6%.
02:04It has gone from 45.8% to 45.7% in rural areas
02:10and from 41.9% to 42.5% in urban areas.
02:15The rate of activity of men has gone from 68.7% to 68.6%
02:22and that of women from 18.4% to 19.2%.
02:28In international economic news,
02:30inflation in Turkey has slowed down less quickly than expected
02:34to 48.58% in October than to 49.38% in September.
02:42According to the National Office for Statistics,
02:45the increase in consumption prices fueled by the depreciation of the Turkish pound
02:50has reached 2.88% in a month,
02:54a slightly higher rate than expected by authorities.
02:57In the last 12 months,
02:59the education sector with 93.66%
03:03and housing with 89.38%
03:07have been most impacted by the price fluctuations.
03:10On the other hand,
03:11transport seems to have stabilized with an increase of 26.14%
03:17compared to the month of October of the previous year.
03:20We continue our international news.
03:23Several members of OPEC Plus in Saudi Arabia and Russia
03:27have announced an extension of their oil production cut until the end of December,
03:33thus reporting the reopening of the vans in the face of curfews in Bern.
03:38The alliance specifies that the eight countries have agreed to extend the voluntary reduction of production
03:45of 2.2 million barrels per day for a month.
03:49Iraq, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Algeria and Oman are also concerned.
03:55These decisions aim to support prices.
03:57West Texas and Brent are around $70
04:02in the face of an uncertain demand and an accelerating supply.
04:06Currencies have been mined for several months by economic uncertainties,
04:11especially in China,
04:12the second largest consumer in the world and the main driver of the growth of the world's oil demand,
04:18and in the United States, suspended as a result of the American election scheduled for today.
04:24In addition to international economic news,
04:26the Irish airline Ryanair has also published a net profit of 1.4 billion euros
04:33in the second quarter of its exercise,
04:37a 6% drop from the same period of the previous exercise,
04:41plumbed by less expensive tickets than expected.
04:44Delay in Boeing deliveries had a weight on the result and traffic of the Irish airline last year.
04:51The group's management considers it reasonable to moderate its traffic growth target
04:57for exercise 2026 to 210 million passengers,
05:01compared to 215 million before.
05:04This reduction urges the company to redeploy its transport capacity
05:08in countries with the highest taxation for air transport
05:13to the detriment of France, Germany or the United Kingdom.
05:17We come to the end of our edition today.
05:19Excellent.
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