Job growth weakest in 2 years
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Payroll growth was the weakest in two years in February but a lower unemployment rate and a revision higher for January job growth hinted at surprising resilience in the nation's labor market.
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AFP/File - A weaker-than-anticipated report on the US labor market, showing just 112,000 jobs added in November, cast fresh doubts over the pace of growth of the world's largest economy.
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August employment grew at the slowest rate in four years.
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The economy grew at a 0.7 percent annual pace in the first three months of this year, the weakest in more than four years but slightly better than previously estimated, data showed  on Thursday.
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Business activity in the U.S. services  sector in July and new orders at U.S. factories in June were  surprisingly weak, two reports showed on Thursday, signaling  that economic growth was decelerating.
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WASHINGTON - Employers' payrolls grew by just 96,000 in September in a weaker-than-expected government report Friday that provided a final snapshot before Election Day of a lackluster jobs market.    The Labor Department report means President Bush will face the electorate with 821,000 fewer jobs in the country than when he took office, though 1.78 million jobs have been added in the past year...
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The U.S. economy added a modest  97,000 jobs in February, the smallest gain in two years, but  job growth in prior months was stronger than first thought and  the unemployment rate dropped, the government said on Friday,  easing fears over economic weakness.
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Unemployment jumped to its highest rate in two years and new hiring slowed to a trickle in December as a cooling economy and a continued downturn in the housing sector registered soundly in the country's labor force.
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WASHINGTON -- The economy grew at a sluggish 2.2 percent pace in the final quarter of last year, much slower than initially thought as businesses tightened their belts amid fallout from the troubled housing and automotive industries.
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The US jobless rate dropped in November, but analysts are surprise and disappointed by the weak job creation numbers reported by the US Labour Department.
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U.S. employers added just 146,000  jobs in January, the government said on Friday in an  unexpectedly weak report on the labor market, but a drop in  job-seekers pushed the unemployment rate to its lowest level in  more than three years.
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The Commerce Department said Friday US economic growth in the second quarter grew at its slowest pace since the first quarter of 2003.
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Employers posted fewer job openings  and hired fewer people in December than a year ago, government  data showed on Tuesday, in a report that further underlined the  weakness of the labor market.
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US consumer sentiment is at its lowest level in two years on growing concerns about weak business conditions.
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The short-term confidence of UK firms is at its lowest level in about two years, a survey suggests.
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A slowdown in U.S. economic growth  during the second quarter of the year was not as sharp as  previously thought, the Commerce Department reported on  Wednesday, partly because businesses built up inventories at  the strongest rate in four years.
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The economy grew at a 0.7 percent annual rate in the first three months of this year, the weakest in more than four years.