US stocks wipe out steep losses that followed Trump’s ‘liberation day’
Rally in Wall Street’s S&P 500 share index comes after 177,000 jobs added in labour data
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FTSE 100 records its longest winning streak as Washington releases better-than-expected hiring figures
Markets on both sides of the Atlantic rose on Friday after hiring in the US slowed less than expected in April, offering a glimmer of hope that the world’s largest economy was in a better-than-feared position to withstand the fallout from Donald Trump’s tariffs.
On Wall Street the S&P 500 was up 1.5% and the Dow Jones rose 1.3% by early afternoon on Friday, while European markets closed sharply higher after official figures showed the US workforce grew by 177,000 last month.
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