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Spanish unemployment creeps up as services lose steam

Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez speaks at the European Council meeting in Brussels on October 23, 2025. [AFP]

Spanish unemployment crept up in the third quarter as the dynamic economy's service sector shed seasonally dependent jobs, official data showed on Friday.

The jobless rate in one of the world's fastest-growing developed economies was 10.45 percent from July to September, up from 10.29 percent in the preceding quarter, the National Statistics Institute announced.

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