Wall St ends higher as investors parse US-Iran negotiations, threats

A trader working on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, as a screen showed US President Donald Trump speaking at a White House press conference on the Iran war on April 6. The much-anticipated March jobs report, released on the Good Friday market holiday, showed the US economy added 178,000 jobs in March, nearly triple the 60,000 consensus, an upside surprise dampened by a revision of February’s job losses, to 133,000 from 92,000. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 165.21 points, or 0.36 per cent, to 46,669.88; the S&P 500 gained 29.33 points, or 0.45 per cent, to 6,612.02; and the Nasdaq Composite gained 117.16 points, or 0.54 per cent, to 21,996.34.