Friday’s report capped a week of mostly encouraging data on the job market, including an update indicating layoffs remain relatively low. Such strength helps allay one of Wall Street’s top questions: whether the job market will continue to hold up after the Federal Reserve earlier kept interest rates at a two-decade high.

Major stock indexes rose Friday after a stronger-than-expected jobs report showed robust health in the labor market.The climb came after Friday’s payrolls report showed the U.S. added 254,000 jobs in September,