Economic Indicators

Health care and business services led U.S. job gains in November, a month that saw slower hiring overall.

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Health care and manufacturing had some of the biggest gains.

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Black Americans, adult men and those with just a high school diploma made notable gains in the job market in November.

U.S. employers added 155,000 jobs in November.

Asian shares are moderately higher as worries over U.S.-China trade friction were calmed by conciliatory comments from Beijing.

A winner of this year's Nobel Prize for Economics who advocates for carbon taxes as the best way to address the problems of greenhouse gas emissions says he does not expect U.S. President Donald Trump to make any moves toward accepting that view.

Friday's jobs report for November is expected to point to a solid economy for most Americans, with steady hiring, a low unemployment rate and faster wage gains.

U.S. Steel CEO David Burritt says his company has hired 400 people since Trump's tariffs took effect.

Nissan, the Japanese automaker under scrutiny after its former chairman Carlos Ghosn was arrested on suspicion of financial misconduct, is recalling 150,000 vehicles spanning 11 models in Japan for dubious inspections for brakes and steering.

Official figures show that factory production in Germany declined in October in another sign that Europe's largest economy may be slowing.

U.S. stocks tumbled in early trading Thursday following a sell-off in overseas markets, knocking more than 450 points off the Dow Jones Industrials Average.

The dramatic arrest of a Chinese telecommunications executive has driven home why it will so hard for the Trump administration to resolve its deepening conflict with China.

The Environmental Protection Agency proposed another rollback Thursday aimed at easing controls on emissions from coal-fired power plants, this time for new ones, even as warnings mount from the agency's scientists and others about the growing toll of climate change.

There's no guarantee that four former executives of the only financial institution to be criminally charged in connection with the federal bank bailout program will be sentenced to prison for fraud.

A government report says the nation's health care tab hit $3.5 trillion last year, or $10,739 per person.

A corporate executive has been sentenced to 2½ years in prison for defrauding a New York state economic development program.

___ Stocks plunge again as Huawei arrest renews China tensions NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks clawed most of their way back from a deep slide Thursday that at one point had wiped out the market's gains for the year.

Major U.S. stock indexes finished mostly lower Thursday after a late wave of buying erased most of the losses from a steep early market slide.