10 Things You Need To Know For Thursday

The payroll-processing firm ADP reports that 118,000 private-sector jobs were created in November—but estimated that 86,000 were lost due to Hurricane Sandy. The firm, which releases a monthly jobs report the same week as the U.S. Labor Department, recently revamped its methodology to more closely fit the final, official numbers. Despite the addition of new jobs, the report wasn’t all rosy: Hurricane Sandy hit the manufacturing, retail, and leisure and hospitality sectors particularly hard, the report said.

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