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Stocks – Wall Street Rises Modestly Ahead of Jobs Report

Investing.com – Stocks managed to rise for a second day in a row Thursday ahead of release of the important U.S. jobs report.

The S&P 500 rose 0.15%. The Dow Jones industrials added 0.1%. The Nasdaq Composite pushed 0.05% higher while the Nasdaq 100 Index climbed 0.14%.

The small gains came after a weak open that saw the Dow fall as many as 87 points before a rally set in.

The rally seemed to be a bet that Friday's jobs report, due at 8:30 a.m. ET (13:30 GMT) will be a winner.

Analysts tracked by Investing.com expect the report to show the economy added 186,000 jobs in November, up from 128,000 jobs in October and 155,00 jobs in November 2018. The unemployment rate is projected to hold steady at 3.6%, unchanged from October and down slightly from December 2018.

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Early in the day, the Labor Department said initial jobless claims fell to a seven-month low.

Throughout the day, materials, financial and tech stocks were the market leaders.

JPMorgan Chase (NYSE:JPM), Campbell Soup (NYSE:CPB) and RH (NYSE:RH) hit new 52-week highs.

There seemed to be little news on the U.S.-China trade talks except that both sides said they were still talking. In addition, President Donald Trump said "something could happen" on whether the United States will impose new tariffs on Chinese goods starting Dec. 15.

Saudi Aramco's initial public offering was priced Thursday giving the oil giant a market cap of $1.7 trillion, exceeding Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) current market cap of $1.2 trillion. But Saudi Arabia had originally hoped for a $2 trillion market cap. The shares are not available on U.S. exchanges.

Ride-sharing companies LYFT (NASDAQ:LYFT) and Uber Technologies (NYSE:UBER) both fell after 21 women sued Lyft in San Francisco charging they'd been sexually assaulted or raped.

Gold moved up slightly in New York. Crude oil was mostly flat. Interest rates moved higher, with the 10-Year Treasury yield hitting $1.798%, up from Wednesday's 1,781%.

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