Futures inch up as focus shifts to jobs data

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AI chip firm Nvidia shed 2.8% in premarket trading, after choppy trade last week, along with some weakness in other semiconductor stocks. Focus will be on...

- U.S. stock index futures edged higher on Monday ahead of manufacturing PMI data, with focus also on U.S. labor market numbers later in the week that will be parsed for cues on the Federal Reserve's monetary policy path.

Also scheduled for the week are JOLTS job openings data on Tuesday, and ADP employment, factory orders, ISM services PMI data and minutes of the Fed's latest policy meeting on Wednesday.Non-farm payrolls data is due on Thursday, when trading will be shut for equities on account of U.S. Independence Day.

"It's half time, and it is definitely party time, at least if you are in a large-cap, market-weighted index or the Magnificent Seven," wrote Howard Silverblatt, senior index analyst at S&P Dow Jones Indices. At 5:36 a.m. ET, Dow e-minis were up 73 points, or 0.18%, S&P 500 e-minis were up 6 points, or 0.11%, and Nasdaq 100 e-minis were up 8.75 points, or 0.04%.

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