101.   Wall Street prices climbed Friday after interest rates on long-term bonds rose and then fell on better-than-expected jobless figures for December.

102.   Wall Street prices were up in early trading Friday boosted by strong jobless figures for October.

103.   It is the only agency to publish seasonally adjusted jobless figures.

104.   Jobless figures would fall but health problems, homelessness and crime would go up.

105.   It was the third consecutive fall in the monthly jobless figures, after a year of steady increase to reach a post-war record of four million in January.

106.   Market analysts were divided as to whether the September jobless figures would lead the Federal Reserve imminently to hike short-term interest rates for the sixth time this year.

107.   Laura Tyson, chairwoman of the National Economic Council, said Friday that the latest jobless figures did not point to increased inflation.

108.   Long-term interest rates surged Thursday to their highest level in a month in a reaction to weekly jobless figures suggesting the US economy is stronger than believed.

109.   President Bill Clinton hailed the lower jobless figures, but said more progress would have to be made in order to improve the lives of hard-working Americans.

110.   Share prices in London fell early on Wednesday, in a cautious trading environment before publication of British jobless figures for September.