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Stocks rose on Wednesday after two days of broad losses by big technology companies, which dragged U.S. indexes into the red for the year.
U.S. stocks fell sharply on Thursday after President Donald Trump announced new tariffs on Chinese goods.
The nation’s unemployment rate, which has hovered just below 5 percent since spring, plummeted to 4.6 percent in November, the Labor Department reported Friday. The U.S. economy added 178,000 jobs in last month.