Wall Street ended a choppy week of trading with a broad rally that drove the Dow Jones Industrial Average more than 370 points higher.
The gains Friday also gave the S&P 500 index its best day in seven weeks, though the benchmark index still finished with its third straight weekly loss.
Stock markets around the world rose and gold dipped following the release of the U.S. jobs data as investors felt less need for safety.The Labor Department said employers added 136,000 jobs last month, slightly less than the 145,000 that economists were expecting and below the 168,000 pace from August. Worker’s wages were also weaker than expected, with zero growth from a month before.
If the job market can remain strong, it would allow U.S. households to keep spending. And that spending strength has been the hero for the economy recently, propping it up when slowing growth abroad poses a threat and President Trump’s trade war with China saps exports and manufacturing. The yield on the 10-year Treasury held steady at 1.53%. The two-year yield, which moves more on expectations about what the Fed will do, rose to 1.40% from 1.37%.
“An agreement to continue to negotiate toward a mutually acceptable future endpoint is really what would be viewed as a success,” Northey said. HP slumped 9.6% after the maker of personal computers and printers announced jobs cuts of up to 16% of the company’s payroll.
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