PARIS (Reuters) – The New York Stock Exchange opened on small variations on Tuesday in a context of wait -and -see before the publication of an employment indicator and new developments on the World Commerce Front.

In the first exchanges, the Dow Jones index lost 23.48 points, or 0.06%, to 42,282.00 points.

The larger Standard & Poor’s 500 increased by 5.45 points, or 0.09%, to 5,941.39 points.

The Nasdaq Composite takes 63.25 points, or 0.33%, at 19,305.86 points.

Investors will read at 2:00 p.m. GMT of the latest JOLTS survey on job offers, a prelude to a series of key data this week on the labor market in the United States before the publication of the official monthly report on postal creations, the unemployment rate and the hourly wages on Friday.

The labor market is monitored while uncertainties on world trade remain present. According to a letter project consulted by Reuters, the administration of Donald Trump wants countries to present their best offer on trade by Wednesday, while an interview between the American president and his counterpart Xi Jinping is scheduled for this week.

At the values, Merck is falling by almost 1% while the American pharmaceutical group discusses with the Moonlake Immunotherapeutics biotechnology (+17.84%) as part of an operation of more than three billion dollars, according to the Financial Times.

Dollar General jumped 13.37%, the discount distributor having raised his forecast for annual sales after exceeding expectations in terms of quarterly turnover.

Constellation Energy is advancing almost 5% after Meta Platforms announced that it had concluded with the group an energy supply contract.

Megacapitalizations evolve in disorder, Microsoft taking 0.30%, while Alphabet yields almost 2%.

(Written by Claude Chendjou, edited by Kate Entringer)

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