💬 Quoted…​​ “Today’s report shows that the job market is losing altitude, but isn’t in danger of slamming into the ground yet,” per Glassdoor economist Daniel Zhao.

The US economy added 261,000 jobs last month – higher than the 205,000 jobs economists expected and lower than the 315,000 jobs added in September, per new Labor Department data published Friday.

• The nationwide unemployment rate ticked up to 3.7% (from 3.5%), while average wages rose 0.4% month-over-month.

🦠 Stat of the Day: About 3 in every 100,000 US patients with the flu are being hospitalized, the highest rate in over a decade, per new CDC data.

🤯 Did You Know?... Most non-human primate infants actively use their hands to help themselves out of the birth canal – and while human babies don’t, studies show that their grip strength is elevated in the hours after they’re born. (The baby version of dad-strength.)

📖 Worth a Read: TikTok’s Stratospheric Rise: An Oral History → (WSJ)