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Better-Than-Expected Jobs Report Lifts Markets

By editor • Jan 6, 2012
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The Labor Department announced Friday that 200,000 jobs were created in December, and the U.S. unemployment rate fell to 8.5 percent. The new hiring came largely in transportation and warehousing. Tens of thousands of other people found jobs in retail and manufacturing.

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