Wall Street stocks finished sharply lower after a strong US jobs report raising expectations the Federal Reserve will soon lift interest rates. The Dow Jones Industrial Average sank 278.94 points (1.54 per cent) on Friday to 17,856.78. The broad-based S&P 500 fell 29.78 (1.42 per cent) to 2,071.26, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index lost 55.44 (1.11 per cent) at 4,927.37. The Labor Department said the US economy added 295,000 jobs in February, pushing the unemployment rate down two tenths to 5.5 per cent, the lowest level since May 2008.
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