U.S. Unemployment Rises to Highest Level Since 2021

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🗓️ 16 December 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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P.M. Edition for Dec. 16. A long-awaited government report on jobs adds to questions about the economy’s strength. Watch the WSJ Q&A for more takeaways on the labor market. Plus, Heard on the Street columnist Jonathan Weil discusses how efforts to make it easier for small companies to go public in the U.S. have helped fuel a wave of scams. And in Europe, officials are reversing course on a ban on new sales of gasoline-powered cars. WSJ reporter Kim Mackrael tells us why the EU is watering down its rules as the transition to electric vehicles proves more difficult than policymakers anticipated. Sabrina Siddiqui hosts. Sign up for the WSJ's free What's News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.0	The U.S. unemployment rate rose to 4.6% in November its highest level in more than four years.
0:39.9	Plus, how a push for more IPOs has helped cause a wave of stock scams.
0:45.1	And the European Union is reversing course on banning new gas-powered cars.
0:50.2	Globally, we're seeing less uptake from consumers on EVs than some policymakers had expected.
0:57.8	It's Tuesday, December 16th.
0:59.8	I'm Sabrina Siddiqui for the Wall Street Journal, sitting in for Alex Oscella.
1:03.4	This is the PM edition of What's News, the top headlines and business stories that move the world today.
1:16.1	Thank you. and business stories that move the world today. In a breaking news update, we're exclusively reporting that Warner Brothers Discovery
1:20.7	will tell shareholders to reject Paramount's latest bid for the company.
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1:38.4	WSJ.com.
1:42.7	The U.S. unemployment rate rose to 4.6% in November its highest level in more than four years.
1:49.8	And the Labor Department says employers added 64,000 jobs last month after they cut 105,000 jobs in October.
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