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LiveBussiness News 'Astounding number' The recovery since then has been slow, but October's jobs report could help persuade policymakers that the time has come for the first rise in interest rates since June 2006. "That was an astounding number. It's pretty clear that the Fed would be justified in hiking in December, if the economy doesn't hit another air pocket," said Brian Jacobsen, chief portfolio strategist at Wells Fargo Funds. The report, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, showed the jobless rate fell to 5% - the lowest rate in seven-and-a-half years.
In addition, there was positive news on previous months, with the number of jobs created in August and September raised by a net 12,000. There was also a strong rise in wages last month. Average hourly earnings rose nine cents to $25.20, which is a 2.5% rise on a year earlier.
The report, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, showed the jobless rate fell to 5% - the lowest rate in seven-and-ahalf years.
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Egypt. The Book of John Mandeville, a popular 14th Century travel memoir, "Joseph's Granaries, which he had made to store the wheat for hard times". But Darnell says the idea began to fall out of favour during the Renaissance, when people made more detailed studies of the pyramids. "Now of course we know the pyramids were burial chambers - albeit just one element of far greater complexes. The architectural predecessors and descendants of pyramids, their internal passageways and the function of their spaces can be traced right through the period into the new Kingdom of Egypt," he says. The story of Joseph is supposedly set in the time of Egypt's Middle Kingdom, Darnell points out, which is centuries after the pyramids of Giza were built