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Fridays employment report was widely reported as the figure came in much weaker than expected. The street was expecting a decline of 150,000 non-farm payrolls for the month of September while the actual figure was 263,000. The official unemployment rate was pushed up by 0.01% to 9.8%. Though the unemployment rate only ticked up by [...]

The Labor Department reported that the US unemployment rate jumped to 7.6% and nonfarm payrolls fell by the largest amount in 34 years.
Nonfarm payrolls dropped by a seasonally adjusted 598,000 in January, after a revised loss of 577,000 in December.
January marked the largest payroll loss since December 1974, according to a survey of workplaces. [...]