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Omaha Steve

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Fri Jun 6, 2014, 10:20 AM Jun 2014

Stocks edge up after US jobs grow at healthy clip

Source: AP-Excite

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are opening higher after the government said employers hired at a good clip for the fourth month in a row.

Employers added 217,000 jobs in May, in line with what economists expected. The unemployment rate stayed put at 6.3 percent.

Hertz slumped 10 percent after the company said it needed to redo its financial results for the past three years because of accounting errors.

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Read more: http://apnews.excite.com/article/20140606/wall_street-open-ba8e212a6c.html





FILE - In this Aug. 25, 2010 file photo, a woman arrives for work on Wall Street on a rainy day in New York. U.S. stock futures headed higher Thursday, June 5, 2014, after the European Central Bank took new steps to boost the region's sluggish economy. The euro weakened against the dollar and U.S. government bond prices dipped. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
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