Private sector adds 158,000 jobs: survey
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U.S. private employers likely added 158,000 jobs in November, according to a survey by ADP Employer Services released on Wednesday.
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The economy added 18,000 jobs to nonfarm payrolls, the smallest monthly gain in more than four years. The unemployment rate rose to 5 percent.
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The service sector of the U.S. economy saw activity grow in December, amid continued advances for employment and increasing prices, a report from a private research group said Wednesday.
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Private employers likely added 38,000  jobs in August, far fewer than analysts had expected and the  slowest rate of growth in four years, a report by a private  employment service said on Wednesday.
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A smaller-than-expected 157,000 new  jobs were added to U.S. payrolls in December as retailers  surprisingly shed employees during the holiday shopping season,  the Labor Department  reported on Friday.
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Experts called the move by the Commerce Department a big step toward private-sector control.
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CHICAGO -- US employers added a moderately stronger-than-expected 132,000 new jobs last month, despite heavy layoffs in the sagging construction sector and softening factory employment, according to a Labor Department report released yesterday.
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The number of new U.S. jobs climbed by an unexpectedly brisk 157,000 in May on a surge of hiring in service businesses while hiring in the factory sector continued to decline, Labor Department data showed on Friday.
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US employers added 18,000 jobs in December, fewer than analysts had forecast, official data shows.
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Private employers added 130,000 jobs in January, about three times the number that economists had been expecting, a report by a private employment service said on Wednesday.
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The US economy added a better-than-expected 132,000 jobs last month, official figures show.
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Employers showed a decent appetite to hire in May, boosting payrolls by 157,000, the most in two months. The unemployment rate held steady at 4.5 percent.
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The economy added 97,000 jobs in February, the smallest gain in two years, but job growth in prior months was revised higher and the unemployment rate dropped, the government said on Friday in a report that eased fears over a sharp economic slowdown.
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Growth in the U.S. service sector rose unexpectedly in June, while the job market also appeared to pick up some steam, according to reports on Thursday that signaled strength in the economy.
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U.S. private employers likely added 57,000 new jobs in February, according to a survey by ADP Employer Services, a private employment service, released on Wednesday.
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Employers added 2.2 million jobs in 2004, the first annual increase in payrolls since before the 2001 recession and a turning point for the nation's labor market after three years of job losses.
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Pay rises in the private sector are now running at 4%, fuelled by higher inflation, a report says.