Stocks Rally; Oil Prices Fall.
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Jobless Claims, Productivity Growth Dip
Fewer Americans filed jobless claims last week and growth in worker productivity slowed sharply in the third quarter, government data showed on Thursday, hinting that conditions in the sluggish U.S. labor market have improved.[…]
Weaker productivity may be good news for the labor market if it means firms are running out of ways to squeeze existing workers into producing more and would now boost hiring.
Indeed, the market has been quite happy the last two days:
Source: Yahoo! Finance