The U.S. economy unexpectedly added 117,000 jobs in July, the U.S. Labor Department announced Friday -- well above the Bloomberg consensus estimate of 75,000.

Also, the nation's unemployment rate dipped to 9.1 percent from 9.2 percent. The better-than-expected July jobs report is qualified somewhat by the fact that 193,000  adults dropped out of the work force, which means they're no longer longer officially counted as "unemployed."

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