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Good morning and look out. Today is Friday, April 1 1st are top stories in the market today

stocks rise after worst quarter since pandemic rubles rebound and Ford and GM to

halt production.

Leading today's news, the second quarter is kicking off with a closely watched jobs report,

and strong numbers could give the Fed more impetus to continue on a rate hike cycle that it hopes will cool inflation.

Non-farm payrolls are expected to show 49,000 jobs added in March following a 678,000 gain in February.

The unemployment rate is expected to fall a bit to 3.7% from 3.8,

while wages are forecast to rise 0.4% month over month and 5.5% year over year.

Positive jobs growth in March would mark the 14th consecutive month of expansion

for the U.S. workforce and would bring the level of employed Americans closer to

pre-pandemic levels. Non-farm employment is now only down by about 2 million

payrolls or 1.4 percent compared to its 152 million level notched in February 2020.

At the height of the COVID employment crisis, in April of that year, non-farm payrolls

slum to 130 million nationwide.

Marvin Lowe, senior global macro strategists at State Street,

said transportation still seems to be pretty hot,

certainly the hospitality sector, but over the last couple of months it's been pretty

widespread. We're seeing jobs gains across most of the job sectors. I would look at retail because

when you get these higher gas prices it's the consumption

categories that get hit first. Futures link to the major indices are around

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