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U.S. stock futures pared earlier losses to advance on Thursday, as the Dow Jones, Nasdaq 100, and S&P 500 indices rose, following Wednesday's lower close.

Investors digested a cooler-than-expected labor market picture as June nonfarm payrolls increased by a mere 57,000, significantly missing the 100,000 FactSet estimate, while the unemployment rate remained unchanged at 4.2%.

Meanwhile, seasonally adjusted initial jobless claims for the week ending June 27 ticked down slightly to 215,000. Trading volume is expected to remain light as the market will be closed tomorrow, Friday, July 3, in observance of Independence Day.

As U.S. stocks logged their strongest quarter since 2020, the market milestone was celebrated by President Donald Trump following positive developments in indirect U.S.-Iran negotiations in Qatar.

Easing global energy supply fears, Trump told reporters, "As far as things are going, the denuclearization of Iran is moving along well," adding, "They’ve had very good meetings and we’ll see."

Meanwhile, the 10-year Treasury bond yielded 4.49%, and the two-year bond was at 4.17%. The CME Group’s FedWatch tool’s projections show markets pricing a 70.6% likelihood of the Federal Reserve leaving the current interest rates unchanged during July’s meeting.

The SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE: SPY) and Invesco QQQ Trust ETF (NASDAQ: QQQ), which track the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100, respectively, were higher in premarket on Thursday. The SPY was up 016% at $746.95, while the QQQ advanced by 0.29% to $727.25.

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00:08all right we've got some mixed futures ahead of thursday's open here s&p futures just actually
00:14in the last minute went red green here uh but barely they're up by 0.05 percent so we're not
00:21even up a tenth of a percent basically unchanged there on the s&p the dow has been strong here
00:26this morning that's up by 0.12 percent although it is off its highs and the nasdaq actually still in
00:31the red but again at unchanged and nasdaq as i'm speaking right now is making a push towards the
00:36high so maybe we go red green there basically unchanged we'll see how the session plays out
00:41and after all we are up off of the lows so far here today so we'll see if that holds
00:48now let's
00:48take a look at some cues from last session i do have some stocks in focus here for you today
00:52we've got some news that we want to run down as well um all right communication services
00:58financial and consumer discretionary stocks recorded the biggest gains on wednesday that drove
01:03most s&p 500 sectors to a positive finish while information technology and utilities underperformed
01:10u.s stock futures were mixed on thursday as the dow and the s&p rose while the nasdaq fell
01:15that was
01:16following wednesday's lower close although it's still jostling for position here in the morning
01:20investor attention is also turning towards the upcoming june non-farm payrolls report projected
01:26by fax set to rise by a hundred thousand which will be released ahead of the opening bell trading
01:30volume is expected to be light ahead of the data drop as the market will be closed tomorrow friday
01:35july 3rd in observance of independence day as u.s stocks logged their strongest quarter since 2020
01:42the market milestone was celebrated by president trump following positive developments in indirect
01:48u.s iran negotiations in qatar easing global energy supply fears trump told reporters quote
01:55as far as things are going the denuclearization of iran is moving along well end quote went on to add
02:02quote they've had very good meetings and we'll see end quote meanwhile the 10-year treasury bond yielded
02:094.49 percent and the two-year bond was at 4.17 percent the cme group's fed watch tool projection
02:15show that the markets are pricing in a 70.6 percent likelihood the federal reserve leaves the current
02:20rate interest rates unchanged during the july meeting one more thing to add to that oil here
02:27is down again today down another 1.8 percent to 67 so that actually really helps with the uh inflation
02:35outlook now we've got several stocks in focus here for you today the first one is one that we don't
02:40often look at it's franklin covey and the ticker is fc it dropped 19.69 percent in the pre-market
02:47on
02:48thursday after lowering its full-year revenue guidance overshadowing stronger profit growth
02:52in the third quarter the company cut revenue guidance to a range of 260 million to 267 million
02:59from a prior guide of 265 to 275 the next stock on our list is going to be surge pays
03:06and the ticker
03:06is s-u-r-g and it surged by 43.34 percent to sign an agreement with at&t ticker
03:14t to eliminate the
03:1550 million dollar minimum spend commitment the next stock on our list is going to be culp ticker c-u
03:23-l-p
03:24it was 1.62 percent higher after posting mixed results for the fourth quarter after the closing bell
03:29on wednesday the next stock on our list is going to be micron ticker mu it tumbled 2.1 percent
03:36as ceo
03:37sanjay mahotra said ai-driven memory demand had exceeded customer expectations and that industry
03:42supply was likely to remain constrained beyond 2027 citing growing demand across data centers smartphones
03:50pcs automotive and industrial markets the last stock on our list is core weave but it's actually also
03:58nbis so core weave is crwv it declined by 1.43 percent and nebius group is ticker nbis that fell
04:070.21 percent uh and it was continuing its slide from wednesday's meta platform news announcement
04:13meta ticker meta said it's preparing to expand into the cloud infrastructure market
04:21you
04:23on
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