Stocks are on pace to break a three-week losing streak after an encouraging employment report lifted hopes about the pace of economic growth.

Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel is launching an inquiry into the marketing practices of Monsanto Co. and its Roundup Ready 2 Yield soybean trait.

Employers shed 54,000 jobs and the U.S. unemployment rate went to 9.6 percent for August, according to a report Friday by the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The grant will be used to develop a partnership among researchers in the UAMS Department of Psychiatry and the CHCA, which delivers primary care and other health care services to more than 141,000 Arkansans.

A report released Friday provides another sign this summer that the recovery from the recession has slowed, making it difficult for employers to add back the millions of jobs lost during the downturn.

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