Stocks rose on Wednesday after two days of broad losses by big technology companies, which dragged U.S. indexes into the red for the year. 

The nation’s unemployment rate, which has hovered just below 5 percent since spring, plummeted to 4.6 percent in November, the Labor Department reported Friday. The U.S. economy added 178,000 jobs in last month.

Overseas stocks tumbled Wednesday as Donald Trump emerged as the shock victor in the U.S. presidential election.