PARIS (Reuters) – The New York Stock Exchange opened on Thursday after the publication of the official monthly report on employment in the United States, which appeared concerns about the job market situation.

In the first exchanges, the Dow Jones index earns 85.58 points, or 0.19%, at 44,570.00 points.

Standard & Poor’s 500, wider, increased by 23.55 points, or 0.38%, to 6,250.97 points, after having scored a higher historical high

The Nasdaq Composite, which also hit a record the day before, takes 116.08 points, or 0.57%, at 20,509.21 points.

An hour before the opening of Wall Street, the US Labor Department announced that it has identified 147,000 non-agricultural jobs created over the month, a higher figure than expected, while the day before the ADP firm survey had shown that the private sector in the United States had destroyed 33,000 jobs in June.

“We all expected that the concrete data start to show some cracks, and we have not really seen it with the employment report which turned out to be much better than expected,” said Brian Klimke, chief strategist markets at Cetera Investment Management.

“It just puts the Fed on a break and gives it more time to wait, because the job market is really resilient,” he added.

On the bond market, the yield of treasury bills at two years fly away from almost nine basic points, to 3.87%, while the dollar is firmed by 0.34% against a basket of reference currencies, traders tabling only with a probability of 5% on a drop in Fed rates in July, against a probability of 25% before the publication of the job report.

Investors are now awaiting the publication at 2:00 p.m. GMT from the ISM index of services for the month of June, for which the reuters consensus provides a rebound at 50.5 points, which could confirm the solidity of the American economy.

The vote in the House of Representatives of the Donald Trump budget project, which provides for massive tax reductions and a spectacular increase in expenses, is also expected.

On the commercial front, the customs duties agreement between the United States and Vietnam, as well as the lifting by the United States of exports to China for flea design software developers and ethane producers have also strengthened the feeling of the market.

To values, publishers in the sector such as synopsys and design system system climb, respectively 3.88% and 4.78%.

Tripadvisor advances 11.17% after the activist investor Starboard Value has taken a participation of more than 9% in the online travel specialist, according to a source to the file.

Datadog jumped 9.51% with its entry into the S&P 500 index to the detriment of Juniper Networks.

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(Written by Claude Chendjou)

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