WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States created jobs at the fastest pace in nine months in January and the unemployment rate unexpectedly dropped to a near three-year low, giving a boost to President Barack Obama. Nonfarm payrolls jumped 243,000, the Labor Department said on Friday, as factory jobs grew by the most in a year. The jobless rate fell to 8.3 percent - the lowest since February 2009 ...

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NEW YORK, Feb. 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The global industrial products (IP) industry experienced an increase in deal volume over the course of 2011 - 801 deals worth more than $50 million compared to 783 ...

THE unemployment rate dropped slightly from 7.3 percent in 2010 to 7.0 percent in 2011, while the number of employed workers rose from 36.0 million to 37.2 million or by 1.2 million. Administration officials must be rejoicing with these jobs numbers. They shouldn’t.

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The International Labor Organization last month put out a stark warning about increasingly wretched employment prospects almost everywhere in the world. It wrote: "The world must rise to the urgent challenge of creating 600 million productive jobs over the next decade". The report was all but ignored except by the very serious press and the BBC. Perhaps it is not surprising. How did the ILO ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a long-awaited surge of hiring, companies added 243,000 jobs in January — across the economy, up and down the pay scale and far more than just about anyone expected. Unemployment fell to 8.3 percent, the lowest in three years.

Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd., the world’s biggest lender by market value, may hire 20 to 30 executives in Brazil as it expands in South America’s biggest economy, said a person familiar with the plans.

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