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US stocks closed with mixed performance for the three major indexes. Tesla rose more than 9% over the past two days, while NIO soared 14% after its performance announcement.
Before the non-farm data, there is new evidence of the cooling of the US job market, and economic concerns support a substantial rate cut bet. The yield curve of the 2-year/10-year US Treasury bonds, which briefly inverted for the third time in two years. The S&P 500 fell for the third consecutive day, with Broadcom falling more than 4% after hours, Tesla rising nearly 5%, and Nvidia and Chinese concept stocks rising nearly 1%. The yen reached a one-month high, and the offshore renminbi rose by 300 points to break 7.09 yuan. Gold rose briefly by 1%, and oil prices rose more than 2% before falling. US oil fell below $70 for the first time in 15 months over two days.
"Small non-farm" achieves the smallest growth rate in three years, and gold touches the 2520 level.
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