The trading on Wall Street ended with a mixed yesterday as investors’ eyes are directed towards the employment report, the first in Trump era, to be published later today.
NFP
USA economic news – January 6th 2017 13:30 (GMT+1)
NFP – an added 156,000 new Jobs in December.
The unemployment rate ticked up to 4.7% from 4.6% in November.
NFP – January 6th 2017 09:30 (GMT+1)
Investors around the world are waiting anxiously towards the publication of the US employment report and its potential impact on the interest rate.
The early expectations are of 178 thousand additional jobs.
Market News Briefing – December 2nd 2016 06:30 (GMT+1)
The trading on Wall Street ended yesterday with a mixed trend as investors await to the NFP report to be published later today.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose by 0.4% to another new record.
The Nasdaq fell by 1.4%, the sharpest daily fall since September 9 and the S&P 500 was down by 0.4%.
Market News Briefing – November 7th 2016 12:30 (GMT+1)
The futures contracts on Wall Street are signalling a rise at the start of the new trading week.
Last Friday Wall Street ended with declines, following the publication of the US employment report for October.
The report showed an increase of 161 thousand US jobs last month.
The unemployment rate stood at 4.9%.
Economists expected an increase of approximately 174 thousand of new jobs and a decline of 0.1% in the unemployment rate to 4.9%.
Market News Briefing – November 4th 2016 11:15 (GMT+1)
Traders around the world await for the US labor market data which will be published today.
At this time, the future contracts signalling on a stable opening of the trading day on Wall street.
Market News Briefing – Oct. 10th 2016 07:30 (GMT+1)
After the release of the employment data on Friday, which probably will lead to a further rate rise in the US towards the end of the year, this week the investors will focus on the opening week of the earnings season on Wall Street. In addition, investors will bear the eyes to London, after a volatile week on the local stock exchange and on the British currency.
Market News Briefing – Oct. 7th 2016 13:30 (GMT+1)
The US jobs report disappoints again.
The NFP in September amounted to 156 thousand only, while the forecasts was to an addition of 175 thousand jobs.
Also, the unemployment rate climbed from 4.9% to 5%.
Market News Briefing – Oct. 7th 2016 12:15 (GMT+1)
The futures contracts on Wall Street signaling on a decline of 0.3% in the leading indices with the opening of trading today, before the employment report.
Market News Briefing – Oct. 7th 2016 09:00 (GMT+1)
There is a mixed trend this morning (Friday) at the Asian stock markets, after a sudden drop in pound which alarmed investors, and at the background of the US employment data that will be announced later today, and which expected to strengthen the case for raising the interest rates by the Federal Reserve this year.