and putting the three stock benchmarks on track for a winning first full trading week of October. Last Friday's strong gain was not enough to turn the tide on the worst week for the S&P 500 and Nasdaq back to February and for the Dow back to early September.People receive information as they attend a job fair at SoFi Stadium on Sept. 9, 2021, in Inglewood, California.
Economists expect Friday's jobs report, which will be key as theprepares to slow its massive Covid-era bond-buying program, to show that 500,000 nonfarm payrolls were created in September, compared with last month's much worse-than-expected 235,000 additions. The nation's unemployment rate is seen dropping to 5.1% in September from 5.2% in August.