The U.S. markets ended lower on Thursday as major averages once again spent the session bouncing back and forth across the unchanged line. Markets showed some strength in early part of the trading as President Donald Trump confirmed that he had an approximately 90-minute phone call with Chinese President Xi Jinping and he described the phone call with his Chinese counterpart as very good and said it resulted in a very positive conclusion for both Countries. However, despite of positive development between U.S. and China, the traders seemed reluctant to make more significant moves ahead of the release of the Labor Department's closely watched monthly jobs report on Friday. The street is expecting the employment to increase by 130,000 jobs in May after jumping by 177,000 jobs in April, while the unemployment rate is expected to hold at 4.2 percent.
On the sectoral front, considerable strength has been seen in gold, software and steel stocks, meanwhile, airline and networking stocks saw some weakness on the day.
Dow Jones Industrial Average dipped 108.00 points or 0.25 percent to 42,319.74, Nasdaq slid 162.04 points or 0.83 percent to 19,298.45 and S&P 500 fell 31.51 points or 0.53 percent to 5,939.30.
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