Reuters

U.S. job growth increased less than expected in April and the unemployment rate dropped to near a 17-1/2-year low of 3.9 percent as some jobless Americans left the labor force.

Top officials from China and the U.S. reached a consensus on some aspects of the trade row, but disagreements over other issues remain “relatively big.”

World stocks were set for their biggest weekly loss since the middle of March on Friday.

Asian central banks are reverting to their classic policy playbook. They are intervening in currency markets while injecting cash into their economies.

The U.S. dollar fell as investors took profits from a rally that sent the greenback to its highest levels of the year & awaited payrolls data.

The U.S. trade deficit narrowed sharply in March as exports increased to a record high.

U.S. worker productivity increased modestly in Q1, and a jump in compensation supported views that inflation pressures were building up.

Canada’s trade deficit in goods jumped to a record high in March, but analysts took heart in data showing healthy export growth.

The European Central Bank is still making “substantial” progress in lifting inflation, ECB Chief Economist Peter Praet said.

Oil prices slipped as swelling U.S. crude inventories and weekly U.S. production clashed with OPEC supply cuts and the potential for new sanctions against Iran.