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Employers advertised more jobs in September than at any other point in the past three years, a hopeful sign that job market is slowly improving.

Fewer people applied for unemployment benefits last week, a hopeful sign that the job market might be picking up.

New claims for unemployment benefits dropped sharply in the latest week, The Labor Department said Thursday, giving the jobs market one of its first positive signals in some time. 

U.S. stocks plunged Friday, erasing the week's gains, as rising fears about fallout from Europe's debt crisis overshadowed President Barack Obama's plan to revive the U.S. job market.

The number of people seeking unemployment benefits ticked up slightly last week, evidence that the job market isn't improving.

The nation's job market took a turn for the worse last month as employers sharply pulled back their hiring and the unemployment rate edged up to 9.1%, the Labor Department said Friday.

More people applied for unemployment benefits last week, the first increase in three weeks and evidence that the job market is still sluggish.

Thursday rally a distant memory as crude surges over $104 and Dow hits session lows.

U.S. Federal Reserve officials are increasingly confident of the economic recovery but remain unsatisfied with the healing of the job market, minutes of their January meeting released on Wednesday showed.

The Consumer Confidence Index rose in January to its highest level in eight months with Americans growing a little more confident about the job market and business conditions.