Jobless Rate Falls to 4.7% in January

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12 September 2006 at 10:20 a.m. ET

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By Rex Nutting, MarketWatch

The U.S. unemployment rate fell to a 5-year low of 4.7% in January as 193,000 jobs were added to nonfarm payrolls, the Labor Department said Friday.

The January payroll figures fell short of expectations of a gain of 248,000, but with upward revisions to November and December of 81,000, the total payroll gain in the past few months was a bit more than expected.

“Virtually everything else in the report was quite strong,” said David Greenlaw, an economist for Morgan Stanley.

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