Stocks rose on Thursday, snapping multi-day losing streaks for the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 Index, as investors anticipate November's key labor market report on Friday. The Dow rose, while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite added.
Here's how the market settled on Thursday:
S&P 500 Index
Dow Jones Industrial Average
Nasdaq Composite Index
Making headlines, Google-parent Alphabet
"Gemini is the result of large-scale collaborative efforts by teams across Google, including our colleagues at Google Research," CEO Sundar Pichai wrote in a blog post on Wednesday. "It was built from the ground up to be multimodel, which means it can generalize and seamlessly understand, operate across and combine different types of information including text, code, audio, image and video."
In economic news, initial jobless claims for the week ended Dec. 2 rose to 220,000, coming slightly below estimates, the Labor Department reported on Thursday. Moreover, continuing unemployment claims declined for the week ended Nov. 25, falling 64,000 from the previous week to total 1.861 million.
On the earnings front, Chewy
In single-stock news, Advanced Micro Devices
Looking ahead, market participants will digest November's jobs report, which is expected to show 190,000 additions with a 3.9% unemployment rate. Earnings reports are also due for Broadcom