Stock market today: Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq futures rise as investors count down to Nvidia earnings, jobs report

Tech led US banal futures higher connected Monday, trying to revive a rally stalled by doubts astir Federal Reserve interest-rate cuts arsenic investors looked up to this week's important monthly jobs report.

Nasdaq 100 futures (NQ=F) climbed 0.7%, portion those connected the S&P 500 (ES=F) roseate 0.4%. Contracts connected the Dow Jones Industrial Average (YM=F), which includes less tech stocks, traded broadly flat.

The Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) endured a volatile agelong and ended past week lower, arsenic megacap tech names including Alphabet (GOOG), Amazon (AMZN), Broadcom (AVGO), and Meta (META) mislaid traction. The S&P 500 (^GSPC) and Dow (^DJI) managed to decorativeness the week somewhat higher, though some were deed with crisp pullbacks connected Thursday.

A afloat instrumentality to a implicit slate of economical information aft the shutdown's extremity remains up successful the air. But investors volition get their archetypal authoritative authorities snapshot of the labour marketplace this week with the long-awaited merchandise of September's jobs study connected Thursday. The study volition supply a delayed representation of the jobs marketplace successful the US, arsenic a much cautious code from Fed officials past week throws uncertainty connected the cardinal bank's complaint determination adjacent month.

The coming week sees immoderate of the past large releases for net season, peculiarly for AI trade. Nvidia (NVDA) is acceptable for its blockbuster study connected Wednesday, ever an intensely scrutinized event. Investors volition besides get caller penetration into user spot arsenic retailers led by Walmart (WMT) report. Home Depot (HD), Target (TGT), Lowe's (LOW), and Gap (GAP) besides merchandise reports this week.

Bitcoin (BTC-USD), meanwhile, is serving arsenic a wellness cheque for the crypto marketplace astatine large, arsenic the coin dropped 30% successful a small implicit a period from a grounds precocious of implicit $126,000 to beneath $94,000. The driblet erased overmuch of this year's gains that were sparked by the Trump administration's much crypto-friendly stance and indicated investors could beryllium shifting to a risk-off mindset.

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