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Stocks waver after mixed jobs report for August (AP)


A mixed report on job losses and unemployment for August nudged the stock market higher in early trading Friday. Stocks edged up after the Labor Department reported a slower pace of job losses last month but also an increase in the unemployment rate to 9.7 percent — the highest since June 1983.

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