U.S. unemployment rises to 4.3 pct in cooling labor market

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 (Xinhua) -- U.S. employers added only 114,000 jobs in July, raising unemployment to 4.3 percent and signaling a continuous cooling-down of the labor market, the U.S. Labor Department reported on Friday.

Employment continued to trend up in health care, construction, transportation, and warehousing, while the information industry lost jobs, according to the department's Bureau of Labor Statistic