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News Corporation posts fiscal Q3 earnings and revenue growth, fueled by gains in Dow Jones, digital real estate and book publishing.

The S&P 500 and Nasdaq were chasing fresh highs on Friday after the unemployment rate held steady in April. The S&P was up 0.5%. The Nasdaq was up 0.6%. The Dow rose 220 points, or 0.4%. The S&P and Nasdaq were on pace for record closing highs.

Employers added 115,000 jobs last month, more than double the 55,000 economists had expected

Toyota Motor stock was falling after earnings, but Tesla isn’t really a car company anymore—and its shares are rising. Toyota Motor reported fiscal year 2026 earnings and provided an outlook for fiscal year 2027. Tesla stock didn’t seem to be affected, but Toyota investors reacted with caution.

Stock Market Today: The Dow Jones index rose Friday ahead of the April jobs report. Coinbase and Cloudflare dived on earnings.

8am: Futures point higher US stocks are set for a positive open on Friday, with futures pointing higher as Wall Street looks ahead to April's non-farm payrolls report, even as tensions in the Middle East flared overnight. Nasdaq futures are up 0.7%, S&P 500 futures have gained 0.5%,...

FEATURE There was car news on Friday, just not from Tesla Toyota Motor reported fiscal year 2026 earnings and provided an outlook for fiscal year 2027. It’s ho-hum. Tesla stock didn’t seem to be affected, but Toyota investors reacted with caution.

The benchmark US stock measures were pointing higher before the open Friday as investors weigh renew

Dow Jones futures: President Donald Trump says a U.S.-Iran ceasefire is intact despite clashes. Rocket Lab, Cloudflare and IREN are big earnings movers.

A changing of the guard is imminent at America's foremost financial institution.

Stocks were on course to rise to close out the week, with Wall Street seemingly more focused on the looming April jobs report than an exchange of fire between the U.S. and Iran. S&P 500 futures added 0.3% and contracts tied to the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 gained 0.5%. Friday’s nonfarm payrolls report could have a bigger bearing on the market than events in the Middle East.

World shares retreated and oil prices fell back Friday as the fragile ceasefire with Iran was strained by missile and drone attacks that prompted U.S. retaliatory strikes on Iranian military facilities. Investors are closely watching the war situation as negotiations between the U.S. and Iran to end the war make limited progress.

Investors are taking overnight clashes in stride.

Investors are taking overnight clashes in stride.

SINGAPORE, May 8 (Reuters) - Oil rose and U.S. stock futures slipped in early trade on Friday, after the United States and Iran exchanged fire and put a month-long Middle East ceasefire in doubt.

A year ago, Rocket Lab reported a gross profit of $35.2 million from sales of $122.6 million. Looking ahead, Rocket Lab expects second-quarter sales of $225 million to $240 million. Rocket Lab stock was up 5.9% in after-hours trading at $83.21.

Whirlpool reported a first-quarter per share loss of 56 cents from sales of $3.3 billion. Wall Street was looking for earnings per share of 38 cents from sales of $3.4 billion.

Thursday, MP reported first-quarter earnings per share of 3 cents from sales of $90.6 million. Wall Street was looking for a loss of 3 cents from sales of closer to $75 million.

Iran deal doubts hit stocks Thursday, but Nvidia, Tesla were strong. CoreWeave, Rocket Lab, Cloudflare were earnings movers late. The jobs report is on deck.

Space is ice cold—but on Wall Street, space stocks are red-hot. Now, investors have another option to play the trend ahead of SpaceX’s debut, the ultimate space IPO. HawkEye 360 priced its IPO at $26 on Wednesday, raising about $416 million and valuing the company at about roughly $2.5 billion.

The price for a barrel of Brent crude oil settled at roughly $100 Thursday and continued its decline from more than $115 early this week. The Nasdaq composite fell 32.75 points, or 0.1%, to 25,806.20. The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies fell 47.15 points, or 1.6% to 2,839.63.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down, while the S&P 500 Index and the Nasdaq Composite were up

May 7 (Reuters) - The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq touched record highs on Thursday as oil prices plunged further on hopes of a U.S.-Iran peace agreement that could potentially normalize crude supplies

By Lawrence Delevingne and Sophie Kiderlin May 7 (Reuters) - Global stocks mostly held their gains on Thursday while oil prices sank again on optimism over a U.S.-Iran peace deal, even as the fate of

US equity futures were slightly higher pre-bell Thursday as hopes for a finalized peace deal between

Albemarle reports earnings per share of $2.95 from sales of $1.4 billion. Wall Street was looking for earnings per share of $1.19 from sales of $1.3 billion.

The broad market exchange-traded fund SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY) was up 0.2% and the actively trad

Stock Market Today: The Dow Jones index rose Thursday after weekly jobless claims. AI stock Arm dived on earnings.

US equity futures were marginally higher pre-bell Thursday as hopes for a finalized peace deal betwe

Truck broker RXO has offered investors some calm in a sea of Amazon -disruption fears. A year ago, RXO reported Ebitda of $22 million from sales of $1.4 billion. For the second quarter, RXO expects Ebitda of between $27 million and $37 million.