UK jobless rate rises by more than expected to 4.5%

英国失业率超过预期，达到4.5%

The number of people in employment fell by 153,000 in the June-to-August period compared with a median forecast for a fall of 30,000 in the Reuters poll.

路透社市场调查公司就失业人数所给出的预测中间值为3万人，与此相比，6到8月期间，失业人数为15.3万人。

Britain’s unemployment rate rose by more than expected to 4.5% in the three months to August, up from 4.1% in the three months to July, even before the end of the government’s broad coronavirus job protection plan.

在6到8月这三个月中，英国的失业率涨幅超过预期，达到了4.5%，高于5-7月的失业率涨幅（4.1%），这一涨幅甚至是在政府推出大规模新冠病毒岗位保护计划结束之前。

Economists polled by Reuters had expected the unemployment rate to rise more slowly to 4.3%.

接受路透社问卷调查的经济学家预测失业率涨幅会更加缓慢并达到4.3%。

The number of people in employment fell by 153,000 in the June-to-August period compared with a median forecast for a fall of 30,000 in the Reuters poll.

与路透社市场调查公司所给出的预测中间值-下降3万人相比，6到8月的在职人数下降了15.3万。

However, separate tax office data showed the number of staff on company payrolls rose by a monthly 20,000 in September, slightly reducing the total number of job losses by that measure since March to 673,000.

然而，独立的税务机构数据显示，在9月份，公司薪资名单中的员工人数增加了2万人，使自3月份按照这一方式统计的失业人员总数略有降低，达到67.3万人。

The Bank of England has forecast that the unemployment rate will hit 7.5% by the end of the year as the government scales back its 50 billion-pound ($65 billion) job protection scheme and replaces it with a smaller programme in November.

由于政府对500亿英镑（650亿美元）的岗位保护计划有所缩减并将在11月用一个更小规模的方案取代该计划，英格兰银行预测失业率在年末将达到7.5%。

BoE Governor Andrew Bailey on Monday repeated his warning that the economy could prove weaker than the central bank’s forecasts.

英国央行行长Andrew Bailey周一重复强调，经济可能会比中央银行所预测的更差。

以上英文内容摘自CNBC