Wall Street opens higher as softer payrolls data, lower yields lift sentiment
WALL Street’s main indexes opened higher on Friday (Oct 2), as a softer-than-expected jobs report deepened prospects of an unchanged US rate...
Wall Street witnessed a positive opening on Friday, October 2nd, as softer-than-anticipated jobs data and declining yields lifted market sentiment. By 9:30 am ET, major indexes saw gains: the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.7%, reaching 51,266.64 points, the S&P 500 increased by 0.9% to 7,734.72, and the Nasdaq Composite climbed by 1.3% to 27,216.91.
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