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Jobs report: U.S. payrolls grew by 261,000 in October, unemployment rate rises to 3.7%

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The U.S. economy added more jobs than expected in October even as the Federal Reserve pressed on with the central bank's most aggressive monetary tightening campaign in decades.

Here are the highlights from the Labor Department's monthly jobs report released Friday, compared to consensus estimates from Bloomberg:

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