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US Jobs Growth Loses Steam

US employers added fewer jobs than expected in December, capping a year of slowing growth

US employers added fewer jobs than expected in December, capping a year of slowing jobs growth. Yogita Limaye brings us the latest from New York and we get stock market reaction from Scott Nations, president and chief investment of NationsShares in Chicago.
Also, MPs in the UK are calling for a $0.35 'latte levy' on disposable coffee cups in the UK. We get reaction to the proposal from Trewin Restorick of environmental charity the Hubbub Foundation.
We have a report from Kolkata, India, on a burgeoning quiz competition industry in the country. Plus we look back at the rest of the week's big business stories with Sujeet Indap, editor of Lex US at the Financial Times in New York, and Swaha Pattanaik, economics editor of Reuters Breaking Views in London.

(Picture: US manufacturing was one of the sectors were jobs continued grow but at a slower pace. Picture credit: Getty Images.)

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Fri 5 Jan 2018 22:32GMT

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