Joy Wiltermuth

Follow all the latest U.S. market action for Thursday here.

Follow all the latest U.S. market action for Thursday here.

Wall Street traders who were looking for a clear market signal from Friday's jobs report better look elsewhere, according to Janus Henderson Investors. “This is an underwhelming and muddying jobs report 5 days before an election," wrote Lara Castleton, U.S. head of portfolio construction and strate

Investors added billions of dollars to highly rated bond exchange-traded funds in the past week, which saw $6.7 billion of inflows, the biggest weekly climb since January, according to BofA Global. Flows, however, turned negative for high-grade bonds, which saw outflows of $0.22 billion, the bigges

Don't make the same mistakes from July, when markets stumbled "over a single bad jobs report," said Scott Helfstein, head of investment strategy at Global X. "That was a head fake. Things are good and that is what investors should focus on," Helfstein said in emailed comments Friday, arguing that h

Friday's "interesting" jobs and manufacturing data risk adding to "information overload" for investors ahead of next week's U.S. election and Federal Reserve meeting, said Rick Rieder, BlackRock Inc.'s chief investment officer of global fixed income. "Ultimately, we’ll take notice of today’s labor

The blue-chip Dow was back on track for weekly gains, helped by a big rebound on Friday. The Dow was up over 450 points, or 1.1%, heading into midday, trading near 42,216, according to FactSet. The bounce was enough to erase three straight days of losses and put the index on pace for a 0.3% weekly

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Investors should get comfortable with the idea of a Federal Reserve policy rate of about 4%, according to Barclays Research. "We are taking Trump seriously, but not literally," a Barclays product-management team led by Ben McLannahan wrote in a Monday client note, adding that they expect half the t

Follow all the latest U.S. market action for Wednesday here.