Wall Street listless ahead of two days of US employment data
Wall Street listless ahead of two days of US employment data. The markets appeared to be slow in their progress in the early hours of Thursday ahead of further jobs data likely to show continued growth within the U.S. labor market. The futures of the Dow Jones industrials and the S&P 500 shifted between small gains and losses prior to the bell rang at the start of the day. It is expected that the U.S. government will release its weekly unemployment report on Thursday, and its highly-anticipated December jobs report on Friday. Employment numbers that are strong are seen as…