The US added only 12,000 jobs in October, far less than the 100,000 economists polled by Bloomberg were expecting. The unemployment rate remained unchanged at 4.1%, as expected. Average hourly earnings rose 0.4% from September and 4.0% from a year ago. However, the data was impacted by both hurricanes and strike activity.

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This post was written by Stephanie Mikulich.