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News Wrap: U.S. economy stays strong despite global slowdown

Season 2016 | 5m 14s

In our news wrap Friday, despite global economic slowdown, the U.S. economy added 242,000 jobs in February and kept unemployment steady at 4.9 percent, numbers President Obama said prove his detractors wrong. Also, Beijing announced that it will increase its defense budget by seven to eight percent this year, the slowest pace in more than half a decade, due to waning growth in the Chinese economy.

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