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• The U.S. unemployment rate fell to 8.6% in November, the lowest level in more than two and a half years.

• (FT) Globally, wireless capacity must double about every 30 month.

• Goldman Sachs predicted on Friday a recession would hit the Spanish economy in 2012 and last until 2013.

• YoY World manufacturing production increased by 5.5 % in Q3 of 2011, said a report released Thursday by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO).

• Jobless rate in France rose by 2% to 9.3 percent in Q3.

• MoM the industrial producer prices index rose by 0.1 % in the Eurozone in October.

• The Chinese leadership's law-and-order chief is warning that China is ill-prepared for social unrest generated by changes in the economy, in the latest sign that the government is worried about the consequences of flagging growth.