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Traders will not get an immediate opportunity to react to the jobs report.
The stock market will be closed that day for the Good Friday holiday.
Scott Horsley, NPR News, Washington.
All the major stock indexes fell last week as the U.S.
war with Iran continued to scramble energy markets.
Crude oil prices topped $100 a barrel, and gasoline prices climbed to about a dollar a gallon higher than they had been before the war.
This coming week brings a fresh look at the U.S.
We'll find out on Friday how many jobs employers added or subtracted in the month of March.
The job market has shown little movement for the last six months, but at 4.4 percent, the unemployment rate remains relatively low.
Traders will not get an immediate opportunity to react to the jobs report.
The stock market will be closed that day for the Good Friday holiday.
Scott Horsley, NPR News, Washington.
Oil prices are up and stock prices are down nearly four weeks after the U.S.
launched its war with Iran, scrambling global energy supplies.
All the major stock indexes fell sharply on Thursday, with the Nasdaq dropping into correction territory, more than 10 percent below its recent peak.
The spike in oil prices is particularly hard on Asian countries that rely heavily on imports from the Middle East.
Japan's government warns those prices could put lasting pressure on inflation in the world's fourth largest economy.
A federal judge says the online betting company DraftKings can continue using the term March Madness for now.
That's despite a lawsuit from the NCAA, which says it tries to avoid any hint that it's on board with gambling around its college basketball tournament.