Stock market today: Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq futures waver as jobs report beats estimates, unemployment rate rises
Yahoo Finance·2025-12-16 07:08
US stock futures wobbled Tuesday amid a flurry of mixed-bag updates on the US labor market. The delayed November jobs report showed an uptick in jobs added last month, while the unemployment rate jumped to its highest since 2021. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures (YM=F) hovered just below the flatline, while those tied to the S&P 500 (ES=F) lost roughly 0.1%. Contracts on the tech-heavy Nasdaq (NQ=F) fell 0.3% after the indexes kicked off the week with slight losses. All eyes on Wall Street turned to ...