The nation’s employers kept hiring briskly in November despite high inflation and a slow-growing economy – a sign of resilience in the face of the Federal Reserve’s aggressive interest rate hikes.The economy added 263,000 jobs, while the unemployment rate stayed 3.7 percent, still near a 53-year low, the Labour Department said onFriday. November’s job growth dipped only slightly from October’s 284,000 gain.Last month’s hiring amounted to a substantial increase. All year, as inflation has surged and the Fed has imposed ever-higher borrowing rates, America’s labour market has defied sceptics, adding hundreds of thousands of jobs, month after month.
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