A take a look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan Another forecast miss out on from a U.S. megacap integrates with caution ahead of January’s work report to keep a lid on stocks into Friday’s open - with resilient long-dated Treasuries squashing the yield curve to its flattest for the year.

Similar to Microsoft and Alphabet over the past number of weeks, Amazon disappointed Wall Street late Thursday as issue about cloud computing doused profits and earnings forecasts and sent its stock down 4% over night.

The latest underwhelming outlook from the “Magnificent 7” top U.S. tech companies reins in an otherwise upbeat S&P 500, fraternityofshadows.com with questions about heavy spends on synthetic intelligence ignited again by the advancement of China’s low-cost DeepSeek model.

The DeepSeek buzz, by contrast, continues to fire up Chinese stocks. They included another 1%-plus earlier on Friday regardless of continuous concerns about a mounting Sino-U.S. trade war and Monday’s deadline for Beijing’s retaliatory tariffs.

But the day’s macro occasions will likely take precedence, with the release of the January U.S. employment report and long-term modifications of previous job creation.

Job growth likely slowed to 170,000 in January from simply over quarter of million the prior month, partly by wild fires in California and cold weather across much of the country.

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