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Mid-day: US gauges on pace for losing week, job openings high

By Joseph Toppe

17:11, 12 November 2021

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US shares are moving higher mid-day on Friday, despite a weak job openings report and the major indices sinking lower for the week.

By intraday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up around 150 points, or 0.4%, while the S&P 500 was up about 0.6% and the Nasdaq Composite was trading stock 0.8% higher.

For the week, the major gauges are closing in on a losing week for the first time in over a month. Currently, the Dow is down about 0.6%, the S&P 500 is 0.4% lower, and the Nasdaq Composite is off around 0.8%.

Job openings stay at record levels

A record 10 million Americans were out of work in September as the US economy struggles to rebound from the Covid-19 pandemic.

The latest data compiled by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics shows there were 10.4 million open jobs on the last business day in September.

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Shares of Johnson & Johnson are up 1.4% after the company announced it was splitting into separate publicly traded companies.

In the EV-auto sector, shares of Rivian Automotive are up 5.05% to give the start-up a market capitalisation around $111bn.

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Shares of Tesla are down 3.46% as traders weigh in on Elon Musk’s sale of $5bn in stock earlier this week.

Shares of Lordstown Motors sank 10% Friday after the company reported a loss for the third quarter.

In assets, bond markets re-open, oil drops

The bond market reopened after a break for Veterans Day. The yield on benchmark 10-year Treasury notes rose to 1.564%, from 1.558% Wednesday.

In the energy sector, West Texas Intermediate crude for December delivery sank 60 cents, or 0.7% to $80.99 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, leaving the US benchmark on track for a 0.3% weekly fall.

January Brent crude, the global benchmark, was 51 cents lower, or 0.6% at $82.36 a barrel on ICE Futures Europe, headed for a 0.5% weekly decline.

Global markets: Mixed bag

The Stoxx Europe 600 was up 0.1%, while in Asia, Japan’s Nikkei 225 rose 1.1%, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng 0.3% and the Shanghai Composite added 0.2%. Canada's TSX Composite is up 0.66% mid-day Friday. 

Read more: Record high US job openings continue in September

Markets in this article

JNJ
Johnson & Johnson (Extended Hours)
151.33 USD
-0.21 -0.140%
JNJ
Johnson & Johnson (Extended Hours)
151.33 USD
-0.21 -0.140%
RIVN
Rivian Automotive Inc.
16.71 USD
0.23 +1.410%
TSLA
Tesla Inc (Extended Hours)
236.37 USD
0.31 +0.130%

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