U.S. job growth slows marginally in April; unemployment rate steady at 4.2%

Open this photo in gallery: A help wanted sign in the door of a hardware store in Cambridge, Mass., on July 8, 2022.Brian Snyder/Reuters U.S. job growth slowed marginally in April, but the outlook for the labour market is increasingly darkening as President Donald Trump's aggressive tariff policy heightens economic uncertainty. Nonfarm payrolls increased by 177,000 jobs last month after rising by a downwardly revised 185,000 in March, the Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics said in its closely watched employment report on Friday. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast 130,000 jobs added last month after a previously reported 228,000…