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Employers added 50,000 jobs in December, nearly unchanged from a downwardly revised figure of 56,000 in November, the Labor Department said Friday.

The U.S. labor market wrapped up the year with an unemployment rate of 4.4% in December, the BLS reported Tuesday. Economists had expected that unemployment dipped to 4.5% in December—a result that would likely prompt the Fed to keep rates steady at its Jan.