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The jobless rate held steady at 5.1 percent but average hourly wages fell by a cent from August.

GLOBAL GROWTH WORRIES: Investors took the U.S. Federal Reserve’s decision to postpone an interest rate hike as a sign the global economy is weak.

Meanwhile, investors continued to assess the US Federal Reserve’s decision to leave short-term interest rates unchanged.

For the fourteenth year in succession, lightweight metals pioneer Alcoa AA, +1.14% has been named as one of the world’s driving organizations for maintainability on the prestigious Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI)- an all around perceived and respectable benchmark...

At 11:06 a.m. EDT (1506 GMT), the Toronto Stock Exchange’s S&P/TSX composite index was down 119.1 points, or 0.88 percent, at 13,477.31.

This was despite Chinese stocks tumbling again this morning – plunging more than 7%, and hitting their lowest level in eight months.

North American stock markets seesawed once again on Wednesday as investors couldn’t decide whether to be encouraged by China’s recent move to stimulate its economy or anxious that Beijing thinks it needs stimulus in the first place.

This time, there was no retreat.

“The question for investors is when to catch this falling knife”, Barty wrote.

Robert Kleinhenz, chief economist with the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corp., agreed.

The US stock market has rebounded slightly following an early trading plunge in the wake of a big drop in Chinese stocks. Minutes after the opening bell Monday, the major indices tumbled wildly, making Friday’s 530-point sell-off in the Dow look like a minor blip, but...

The cause of the global market volatility centres on fears that the world’s second biggest economy is slowing. “And I don’t see any signs of meaningful government intervention”.

The global benchmark, Brent crude LCOU5, -0.95% fell 67 cents, or 1.3%, to $49.51 a barrel on London’s ICE exchange.

Oil prices remained under pressure on worries about oversupply and weak global demand, but gold bucked the trend although by not enough to see the precious metal avoid its longest weekly losing streak since 1999.

Monthly job growth has averaged 211,286 so far this year, a level suggesting employers are confident the economy will continue to expand and require more workers. At 62.6%, it remains at levels not seen since the late 1970s.