Private sector adds 40,000 jobs in Dec: report
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Private employers added 40,000 jobs in  December, a report by a private employment service said on  Thursday.
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U.S. employers added 157,000 workers overall to their payrolls in December, bringing the year-end total of new jobs to 2.2 million, the best showing in five years. The unemployment rate held steady at 5.4 percent.
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Business & money: Private sector competitors see 'extraordinary' demand.
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By Mark Fagan, Journal-World, Lawrence, Kan.  Dec. 12--Lawrence's largest private-sector employer is getting a new  owner as part of a $600 million deal designed to speed the company's existing  plans for growth.
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The nation's industrial sector ended 2004 on a high note, with manufacturing activity expanding in December for the 19th consecutive month, a research group reported. But the government said construction spending dropped in November as builders reined in projects in anticipation of higher interest rates.
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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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U.S. employers added 157,000 employees to payrolls in December, completing the strongest year for job growth since 1999, according to a government report on Friday that cemented expectations of rising interest rates in 2005.
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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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Ending a streak of 10 consecutive months of growth, the U.S. manufacturing economy unexpectedly contracted in December, a private research group said.
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U.S. private sector wage growth  should continue to accelerate in the months ahead on the back  of a healthy employment climate, according to a survey released  on Tuesday.
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The US economy created 337,000 new jobs in October, the government reported Friday, snapping a prolonged jobs slump and sparking renewed hopes that, after years
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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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U.S. construction spending rose 1.1  percent in December, topping expectations, as private  residential spending jumped to a record high, a government  report showed on Tuesday.
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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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U.S. retail sales jumped a  more-than-expected 1.2 percent in December, but first-time  jobless claims posted a surprise climb and import prices dipped  more than anticipated, government reports showed on Thursday.
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CHICAGO - US employers&#39; announced job-cut plans jumped 41 percent in September from the same month a year earlier, suggesting that employment growth is not picking up after a slowdown in the second quarter, a private survey found.
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US employers added 18,000 jobs in December, fewer than analysts had forecast, official data shows.