U.S. employers added jobs in October at the quickest pace this year, while boosting wages at the fastest rate since 2009, giving the Federal Reserve its clearest signal yet that the economy may be strong enough to withstand an interest-rate increase next month. Nonfarm payrolls rose a seasonally adjusted 271,000 last month, the Labor Department said Friday. Revisions showed employers added a combined 12,000 more jobs in September and August than previously estimated, bringing the year’s average to 206,000. The unemployment rate fell to 5%, a level Fed officials expected it to reach by year’s end and near the 4.9% rate they project as normal in the long run. Average hourly earnings of private-sector workers rose at a 2.5% annual pace in October. That marked the best year-over-year performance since July 2009, just as the economy was emerging from recession, and a notable rise from the 2% average pace […]