Jobs

Economists expected U.S. employers to have added 164,000 jobs in December.

The federal minimum wage rate has remained at $7.25 per hour for the past decade

The Dow closed Thursday shy of the 29,000 level.

Sixty-two percent of construction firms reported few or no qualified applicants.

Truckers would not be affected by a law regulating the gig economy in California. The law was meant to help contract workers, but it had threatened the livelihoods of truckers and other independent workers.