PT. Equityworld Futures - U.S.
stocks fell, with benchmark indexes tumbling the most in two months, as
better-than-forecast jobs data fueled speculation the Federal Reserve
is moving closer to raising interest rates.
The
Standard & Poor’s 500 Index fell 1.4 percent, the most since Jan.
5, to 2,071.26 at 4 p.m. in New York. The equity gauge lost 1.8 percent
for the week.
Employers
added more jobs than forecast in February and the unemployment rate
dropped to 5.5 percent, the lowest in almost seven years, showing the
labor market is sustaining progress after the best annual performance in
15 years.
The
295,000 advance in payrolls last month followed a 239,000 January
increase that was smaller than previously reported, figures from the
Labor Department showed Friday in Washington. The median forecast in a
Bloomberg survey of economists called for a 235,000 increase. The
unemployment rate fell from 5.7 percent while hourly earnings rose less
than forecast.
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