US stock exchanges close slightly in the black – job data have no subsequent effects

new York Investors on Wall Street started the new trading week cautiously. The leading indices Dow Jones and S&P 500 closed on Easter Monday little changed at 33,586 (plus 0.3 percent) and 4109 points (plus 0.1 percent) respectively. The tech index Nasdaq was 0.95 percent lower at 12,084 points. Heavyweights like Alphabet, Apple and Tesla initially weighed on sentiment.

On Friday, the US Department of Labor published the much-noticed job data for the month of March. Since there was no trading on Wall Street on Good Friday either, this data will now be processed in the courses on Monday.

The labor market in the world’s largest economy cooled slightly again in March. Outside of agriculture, 236,000 new jobs were added after 326,000 in February and 472,000 in January. The data was roughly in line with economists’ expectations. The unemployment rate was also slightly lower than expected at 3.5 percent.

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