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The Stoxx Europe 600 was up 2.5% midway through the European session, led by gains in energy stocks that were buoyed by steadying oil prices. DuPont’s shares soared on news that its embattled CEO would step down, while biotechnology companies sank again. Investors are...

USA stocks climbed Friday morning after three days of losses.

The USA has experienced soft patches in job growth before in this expansion, and officials have been expecting job growth to slow from its quick pace earlier this year and last.

United States stocks opened sharply lower following the jobs report, which one leading analyst labeled “decidedly bad”.

In a speech late Thursday, Fed Chair Janet Yellen, who spoke a week after the Fed delayed a long-anticipated rate hike, said she and other Fed policymakers do not expect recent global economic and financial market developments to significantly affect the central bank’s policy.

The jobless rate held steady at 5.1 percent but average hourly wages fell by a cent from August.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped as much as 259 points in early trade, but recovered somewhat to trade 62 points, or 0.4, higher at 16,335, with losses in financials including (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/ugly-jobs-report-is-punishing-financial-stocks-2015-10-02)J.P....

Japanese stocks rose on Thursday morning as gains on Wall Street helped calm nerves, with investors taking a glass half-full view to weak sentiment among major Japanese businesses and falling manufacturing activity in China.

The newest report came just two weeks after the Fed decided that the economy’s advance was still too fragile to risk lifting interest rates from their near-zero level, even as it hinted that it might go ahead by December.

The best performing sector in 3Q was utilities, which was the only one of 10 S&P 500 sectors to close the quarter in positive territory.

The already tepid August jobs level of 173,000 was revised sharply lower to 136,000, surprising analysts who had anticipated a large upward revision which is typical for that month.

The Federal Reserve decided not to lift its key interest rate about two weeks ago, but New York Fed President William Dudley says a rate hike will likely come before 2016.

And a few worse-than-expected news for the economy is out this hour.

The Nasdaq composite was little changed at 4,544. Wall Street looked set for gains, with futures for the Dow Jones industrial average and the Standard & Poor’s 500 up 0.3 percent.

Yahoo! said it will go ahead despite a risk of a multi-billion dollar tax bill after the U.S. Internal Revenue Service denied its request to considered tax free deal.