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this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. ev's the strongest evidence yet that the economy is headed in the right direction. today came word that the country added 120,000 jobs in november, more than expected. the unemployment rate dipped to 8.6%, that's down from 9%. it's not all quite as good as it tems. it turns out that half of the unemployment rate drop is from people who gave up looking for oork. but the increase in hiring puts an exclamation point on a week of strong economic news. the dow closed today down less than one point, at 12,019.42. .4...

than 787 points, that's up 7%, the biggest weekly increase in two years. we asked senior business correspondent anthony mason to tell us what this is all likely to mean. >> reporter: only a few months ago, scott, the economy looked to it be on the brink of another recession. but just as the outlook in the rest of the world is looking bleaker, in the u.s. it's suddenly looking brighter. private hiring improved last month as businesses added 140,000 workers. 20,000 government layoffs cut the total slightly. but job gains in earlier months were revised sharply higher too. september, whi...