Brazil unemployment rises amid slump

Unemployment in Brazil rose in March for a third consecutive month to 6.2 percent from 5.9 percent in February, amid a deepening slump in South America's largest economy. The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics said the unemployment rate had increased 1.2 percent from the same month last year. Now reality is sinking in," Nova Futura brokerage house director Andre Ferreira told AFP. Brazil had closed 2014 with 4.8 percent unemployment, its lowest level since 2002, when the S