Quick Overview

• The Federal Reserve is not yet finished raising interest rates and must fight any temptation to adopt policies that would stoke inflation, top central bank officials said on Friday

• The U.S. job market rebounded last month from a hurricane-induced slowdown as nonfarm employers added 215,000 workers.
  
  

• The unemployment rate in the Euro-zone was 8.3% in October. The unemployment rate for the EU-25 was 8.5%.
  

• Current exchange rates between the dollar and yen are in line with economic fundamentals, Japanese Finance Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki said on Friday.
  
  

• Canada's unemployment rate improved from 6.6% to 6.4% in November.
  
  

• The USDA increased its estimate of world coffee ending stocks for 2005-2006 from 14.9 to 20.3 million bags. The production estimate was unchanged at 113.2 million bags -- world consumption was lowered from 119.4 to 116.6 million bags.