The US markets ended mostly higher on Monday with Nasdaq settling over half percent. However, concerns about the outlook for interest rates continued to hang over the markets ahead of the release of the Labor Department's closely watched monthly jobs report on Friday. Street currently expects employment to increase by 163,000 jobs in September after climbing by 187,000 jobs in August, while the unemployment rate is expected to edge down to 3.7 percent from 3.8 percent. Further, negative sentiment was also generated in reaction to a surge by treasury yields, with the yield on the benchmark ten-year note jumping to its highest level in almost sixteen years. The spike by yields came after U.S. lawmakers passed a last minute, temporary spending bill over the weekend to keep the U.S. government open.
On the sectoral front, the Institute for Supply Management released a report showing a modest slowdown in the pace of contraction in U.S. manufacturing activity in the month of September. The ISM said its manufacturing PMI rose to 49.0 in September from 47.6 in August, although a reading below 50 still indicates a contraction. Street had expected the index to inch up to 47.7. A separate report released by the Commerce Department showed construction spending in the U.S. increased in line with street estimates in the month of August. The Commerce Department said construction spending climbed 0.5 percent to an annual rate of $1.984 trillion in August after jumping by an upwardly revised 0.9 percent to a rate of $1,847.3 billion in July.
Nasdaq rose 88.45 points or 0.67 percent to 13,307.77 and S&P 500 was up by 0.34 points or 0.01 percent to 4,288.39, while Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 74.15 points or 0.22 percent to 33,433.35.
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