With the U.S. labor market likely to bounce back strongly this summer from a surprisingly tepid April showing, the risks of an overheating economy remain on the rise. “I do think there is a very good chance it [economy] will overheat,” said Jefferies Chief Financial Economist Aneta Markowska on Yahoo Finance Live. “I expect us .
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U.S. stocks closed higher Friday, booking weekly gains with support from data confirming an economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic, despite inflation running at its highest annual rate in about 13 years.
U.S. financial markets will be closed on Monday in observance of the Memorial Day holiday. How are stock benchmarks trading? The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed 64.81 points higher to end at 34,529.45, a gain of 0.2%.
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U.S. stocks closed higher Friday, booking weekly gains with support from data confirming an economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic, despite inflation running at its highest annual rate in about 13 years.
Reuters: 1 million jobs likely added to the U.S. economy last month.
MarketWatch: The Dow climbed to a new record on Thursday ahead of today’s monthly jobs data anticipated at 8:30 a.m. A strengthening economic recovery and effective vaccine rollout in this country have been the main focus for bullish investors.
Weekly filings for unemployment benefits have dropped 33 percent since the start of April, seen as “
further confirmation that a recovery in the labor market is well underway,” wrote economists
Nancy Vanden Houten and
Greg Daco from Oxford Economics, in a report on Thursday. They expect today’s data to show a monthly jump in payroll employment of 775,000.