Friday's selloff followed a report that showed 239,000 new jobs were added to the nation's payrolls last month, much more than had been expected.

The same report will also show that the employers have added fewer than 17 million jobs to their payrolls over the last decade.

Employers added 124,000 workers to their payrolls on top of the 338,000 added in July.

The nation's employers added 310,000 jobs to their payrolls in October, the most for a single month since July.

As the economy begins to recover, companies typically raise production without adding to their payrolls.

A modest 157,000 jobs were added to the nation's payrolls in May.

At the same time, large businesses (again including those that opened or closed) added 802,000 to their payrolls.

The Labor Department reported that 262,000 jobs were added to the nation's payrolls last month, way above the 175,000 expected in the market consensus.

Those figures showed that for the first time in 11 months employers added workers to their payrolls.

Retailers had added 99,000 workers to their payrolls in July.