A "Now Hiring" sign is displayed at a booth during a Job News USA career fair in Overland Park, Kansas. The unemployment rate fell to 4.7%, and wages grew 2.8% from February 2016. Meanwhile, retail positions fell by 26,000, the most since December 2012. Fed Chair Janet Yellen said last week that the labour market was “in the vicinity of our maximum employment objective". For the full year, economists project an average monthly increase of 171,000 jobs, according to a February survey.

Source: Bangkok Post March 10, 2017 13:41 UTC