Employers are curtailing dismissals and hiring at the strongest pace since 1999, a sign of a tightening labor market that may put upward pressure on wage growth. Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen and her colleagues yesterday raised their assessment of the labor market and said they will be patient on the timing of the first interest-rate rate increase.
Stock-index futures held earlier gains after the report. The contract on the Standard & Poor's 500 Index maturing in March climbed 1.1 percent to 2,030.4 at 8:47 a.m. in New York, signaling the gauge will advance for a second day as investors assess the outlook for Fed policy.
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