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COMPANIES kept adding to payrolls in August while measures of slack in the labour market were little changed, signalling steady hiring in the face of lacklustre global growth.
Payrolls climbed by 151,000 last month following a 275,000 gain in July that was larger than previously estimated, a Labor Department report showed on Friday. The median forecast in a Bloomberg survey called for 180,000. The jobless rate and labour participation rate held steady, while wage gains moderated.
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