Forexpros – U.S. stocks were down after the closing bell on Friday.
At the close of U.S. trade, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.51%, the S&P 500 index shed 0.63%, while the Nasdaq 100 index declined 0.48%.
Earlier in the day, official data showed that U.S. non-farm payrolls rose less-than-expected to a seasonally adjusted 80K last month, from 158K in the preceding month whose figure was revised up from 103K.
Analysts had expected U.S. non-farm payrolls to rise 95K last month.
Meanwhile, across the Atlantic, European stock markets closed lower. France’s CAC 40 was down 2.25%; Germany’s DAX shed 2.72%; Britain’s FTSE 100 declined 0.33%; and the EURO STOXX 50 fell 2.41%.
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