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U.S. job growth took a hit last month.

The Labor Department's report comes just days before the presidential election and the Fed's interest rate meaning.

Even coming into the report, the expectation was that the Fed is going to cut rates by a quarter point.

That's still the expectation.

And are betting markets more accurate than polls when predicting who will win the presidential election?

Plus, Iran signals it might strike back at Israel, raising the risk of a wider Mideast war.

It's Friday, November 1st. I'm Tracy Hunt for the Wall Street Journal.

This is the PM edition of What's News, the top

headlines and business stories that move the world today.

U.S. job growth slowed sharply last month, with the Labor Department today reporting that

the economy added a seasonally adjusted 12,000

jobs in October versus a September gain of 223,000. That wildly misses even the muted

expectations of economists who had forecast 100,000 jobs. Still, the unemployment rate stayed

steady at a historically low 4.1%.

Hurricane Helene and Milton put thousands of people out of work across the southeast,

while the Boeing strike took more people off the job.

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