U.S. companies slowed the pace of hiring in April while paying workers only slightly more, signaling a softening of the labor market that knocked down economists’ expectations for a Federal Reserve interest-rate increase next month.
Nonfarm payrolls rose by a seasonally adjusted 160,000 in April, the weakest gain since September, the Labor Department said Friday. The unemployment rate held steady at 5%, but the share of Americans…
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