U.S. stocks were edging lower on Friday, as investors waited on a monthly jobs number that could help determine if the Federal Reserve has any scope to cut interest rates this year.
Trading on Wall Street is mixed and subdued with the arrival of more quarterly financial reports from major corporations and new data on the U.S. jobs market due over the final two days of the week.
U.S. stock futures traded higher on Thursday as investors parsed a weekly reading on jobless claims and a quarterly report on labor-market productivity. A preliminary reading on fourth-quarter ...