By Harriet Torry
The U.S. shed an average of 11,250 private-sector jobs a week in the four weeks ended Oct. 25, ADP said.
The payroll processor said the data suggested "the labor market struggled to produce jobs consistently during the second half of the month."
ADP started issuing more-frequent readouts on the labor market last month, to complement its longrunning monthly report. They are published with a two-week time lag and are based on a four-week moving average.
The report doesn't cover government workers. It offers a gauge of the labor market at a time when the government shutdown has meant delays in other indicators, meaning economists and investors are increasingly focused on alternative data sources.
ADP's most recent monthly report found U.S. businesses added 42,000 private-sector jobs in October.
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