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Collectively, Friday's figures depict a job market slowing under the pressure of high interest rates but still growing.

US hiring rebounds slightly and unemployment rate dips in sign of still-slowing job market

September 06, 2024 7:24 pm

Employers added 142,000 jobs last month, up from a scant 89,000 in July, the Labour Department said on Friday.

US adds a healthy 236,000 jobs despite Fed's rate hikes

April 07, 2023 8:47 pm

Though unemployment remains higher for people of colour than for white Americans, the unemployment rate for Black workers fell last month to 5 per cent — the lowest jobless rate for African Americans in government records dating to 1972.

US Fed slows bond buying with fifth monthly reduction

June 19, 2014 12:53 am

The Fed’s decision came in a statement it released Wednesday after a two-day policy meeting. Most economists think a rate increase is at least a year away despite signs of rising inflation.

Ben Bernanke says US Fed stimulus still needed

July 11, 2013 9:49 am

Bernanke says job market remains weak and inflation remains too low for comfort.

ITs still a bad scene in the US job mkt

September 08, 2010 11:58 pm

For years the technology sector has been considered the most dynamic,promising and globally envied industry in the United States. It escaped the recession relatively unscathed,and profits this year have been soaring.