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Business: 2 —8 Feb. 2025

Here, from 2–8 Feb. 2025, are several “Business & Economics” related news stories you might have missed.

Shain E. Thomas

3 min readFeb 8, 2025

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Saturday, 8 Feb. 2025…

President Donald J. Trump, on Saturday, 8 Feb. 2025, reportedly pauses tariffs on low-cost parcels in US-China trade reprieve.

Trump reinstates tariff exemption for certain cheap shipments — for now | CNN Business

The Trump administration on Friday delayed the suspension of the so-called de minimis provision, which allows packages…

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Friday, 7 Feb. 2025…

United States employers, as reported on Friday, 7 Feb. 2025, apparently added 143,000 jobs in solid but unspectacular January hiring. The U.S. jobless rate fell to 4%.

US job market likely began the year strong, but faces cloudier future

The U.S. labor market probably started 2025 the way it spent most of last year: generating decent, but unspectacular…

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