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Stocks closed narrowly mixed Friday as uncertainty about how the Federal Reserve will interpret the latest employment report kept the major indices in a holding pattern.
The monthly jobs data, among the most important pieces of economic information the government releases every month, showed that 111,000 workers were added to U.S. payrolls in January. Economists had expected 150,000 positions created, according to a Bloomberg poll.
When the session wrapped up, the Dow Jones Industrial Average had fallen 20.19 points, or 0.16%, at 12,653.49. The S&P 500 was up 2.45 points, or 0.17%, to 1448.39, and the Nasdaq Composite added 7.50 points, or 0.3%, to 2475.88. ...
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