U.S. Stock-Index Futures Decline as Jobs Report Misses Estimates
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U.S. stock futures fell, signaling more Standard & Poor’s 500 Index losses following the biggest weekly retreat of the year, after American employers added fewer jobs than forecast in March.
S&P 500 futures expiring in June slumped 1.1 percent to 1,374.90 at 9:15 a.m. New York time following the benchmark index’s 0.7 percent weekly loss. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures retreated 131 points, or 1 percent, to 12,847 today. U.S. stock exchanges were shut for the Good Friday holiday.