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NEW YORK, April 5- Major stock markets tumbled, the dollar fell and U.S. U.S. employers hired at the slowest pace in nine months in March, adding just 88,000 nonfarm jobs, the Labor Department said, below an expected 200,000. The jobless rate ticked a tenth of a point lower to 7.6 percent, but largely due to people dropping out of the work force.
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NEW YORK, April 5- Major stock markets tumbled, the dollar fell and U.S. U.S. employers hired at the slowest pace in nine months in March, adding just 88,000 nonfarm jobs, the Labor Department said, below an expected 200,000. The jobless rate ticked a tenth of a point lower to 7.6 percent, but largely due to people dropping out of the work force.
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Finally, the gold market gets a bid, so here's how to trade it.
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Brian Kelly was not surprised by today's market pullback -- in fact, he was prepared for this. But despite the dismal jobs data, Joe Tanious, JPMorgan Funds, says the rally is not over.
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March's miserable jobs report stoked a debate about the strength of the recovery but helped settle any uncertainty over Federal Reserve policy.
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If you're thinking a drop in the jobless rate is reason to celebrate, bad news: You might want to keep that bottle of bubbly corked.
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Job creation slowed to a crawl during March, with the U.S. economy creating just 88,000 positions though the unemployment rate fell to 7.6 percent.
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Alan Krueger, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, shares his thoughts on the lackluster jobs report.
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Martin Feldstein, Harvard University economics professor, offers his reaction to the March jobs report.
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*Big losses wipe out gain of 50,700 jobs in February. OTTAWA, April 5- Canada's economy unexpectedly shed 54,500 jobs in March, more than wiping out the previous month's big gain and pushing up the jobless rate to 7.2 percent from 7.0 percent, Statistics Canada data indicated on Friday.
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CNBC's Hampton Pearson reports on the latest jobs report for March. Michael Darda, MKM Partners, weighs in.
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The US is expected to have added fewer jobs in March than in February, and there are plenty of excuses.
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Julia Coronado, chief economist for North America at BNP Paribas, and Patrick O'Keefe, director of economic research at CohnReznick, discuss why the employment rate is a better indicator of growth potential in the U.S. than the unemployment rate.
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NEW YORK, April 5- Major stock markets tumbled, the dollar fell and U.S. U.S. employers hired at the slowest pace in nine months in March, adding just 88,000 nonfarm jobs, the Labor Department said, below an expected 200,000. The jobless rate ticked a tenth of a point lower to 7.6 percent, but largely due to people dropping out of the work force.
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WASHINGTON, April 4- The Federal Reserve should focus its energies on bringing down an elevated U.S. unemployment rate even if inflation "slightly" exceeds the central bank's target, Fed Vice Chair Janet Yellen said on Thursday.
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Wilbur Ross, chairman & CEO of WL Ross & Co. LLC, offers his take on the slight uptick in unemployment data and energy opportunities in the U.S.
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The lines at unemployment offices around the country got a little longer last week, reports CNBC's Hampton Pearson. The number hasn't been this high since last November.
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DAYTON, Ohio, April 4- A second Federal Reserve official has suggested that U.S. interest rates may have to remain near zero until the unemployment rate falls as low as 5.5 percent, lower than the 6.5 percent threshold the U.S. central bank has in mind.
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Global central banks are accelerating mostly ineffective policies because they feel they have no choice but to keep trying, Pimco's Mohamed El-Erian told CNBC.
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CNBC's Rick Santelli explains why the numbers don't add up when he look at unemployment and people claiming disability.
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CNBC's Steve Liesman talks with Atlanta Fed President Dennis Lockhart about unemployment levels; inflation risk; and winding down quantitative easing.