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5 August 2011<\/span> Last updated at<\/span> 09:41 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The US economy created 117,000 jobs in July, a better-than-expected outcome, according to the US Labor Department.<\/p>\n

The figure was better than June’s, which was itself revised up from 18,000 to 46,000.<\/p>\n

The overall unemployment rate in July fell to 9.1% from 9.2%.<\/p>\n

The news helped the Dow Jones share index to open higher. It comes after the index suffered its biggest one-day drop since 2008 on Thursday due to worries about the global economy.<\/p>\n

The number of unemployed people fell to 13.9 million, down from 14.1 million.<\/p>\n

“It’s pretty good, it provides some temporary relief, people had been fearing the worse but it’s a better number and it has helped to stabilise market sentiment,” said James Knightley, senior US economist at ING.<\/p>\n

Businesses added 154,000 jobs, but the government cut 37,000 jobs according to the non-farm payroll figures.<\/p>\n

However, 23,000 of those losses were linked to a temporary shutdown of Minnesota’s state government which meant workers did not get paid that month.<\/p>\n

Average hourly earnings also increased by 0.4%, though weekly earnings remained unchanged.<\/p>\n

The unemployment figures benefited from a decline in the number of workers looking for work which reduced the number of people registered as unemployed.<\/p>\n

“We really dodged a bullet here, this is something that the market really needed,” said Rudy Narvas, senior economist at Societe Generale.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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