5 issues to know earlier than the inventory market opens Thursday

Listed here are crucial information gadgets that buyers want to begin their buying and selling day:

The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite moved decrease for the second buying and selling session in a row, extending their tough begin to the buying and selling month. The broad market index misplaced 0.16% to shut out Wednesday’s session at 5,520.07. The tech-heavy Nasdaq slid even decrease, falling 0.3% to complete at 17,084.30. On the flip facet, the Dow Jones Industrial Common gained 0.09% to finish the session at 40,974.97. Observe dwell market updates.

Job openings have hit the lowest stage in additional than three years. The Labor Division’s Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey confirmed there have been 7.67 million accessible positions in July, which is 237,000 fewer than the downwardly revised quantity for June. Not solely that, July’s quantity marks the bottom variety of openings since January 2021. Economists had anticipated 8.1 million for the month, based on Dow Jones. Layoffs additionally grew to 1.76 million in the course of the month, a rise of 202,000 from June. “The labor market is not cooling right down to its pre-pandemic temperature, it is dropped previous it,” stated Nick Bunker, financial analysis director on the Certainly Hiring Lab. “No one, and definitely not policymakers on the Federal Reserve, ought to need the labor market to get any cooler at this level.”

The Nationwide Soccer League is producing enormous returns for its house owners. The typical crew is value round $6.5 billion at this time, with the upper valuations primarily because of the league’s media offers. And the groups’ house owners have seen higher returns on their preliminary investments than these from conventional shares. Seven of the ten previous NFL groups to be offered have outperformed the S&P 500 when it comes to share features because the gross sales befell. Among the many three which have underperformed, the Washington Commanders and the Denver Broncos had been offered inside the previous two years, and the Miami Dolphins had been final offered in 2009, a time when the market was nonetheless recovering from the 2007-08 monetary disaster. These groups are ranked thirteenth, 14th and eighth, respectively. Right here is how the opposite groups rank on CNBC’s Official 2024 NFL Crew Valuations record.

Nvidia is denying stories that it acquired a subpoena from the Division of Justice. Shares of the chipmaker fell Wednesday on the heels of a Bloomberg report that it was subpoenaed as a part of an antitrust investigation. “We’ve inquired with the U.S. Division of Justice and haven’t been subpoenaed,” an Nvidia consultant advised CNBC. “Nonetheless, we’re glad to reply any questions regulators might have about our enterprise.” This additionally comes after the inventory plummeted greater than 9% on Tuesday, with its market cap declining by nearly $300 billion.

The field workplace has made a comeback this summer season. Earlier than the season started, the home field workplace was down 22% from the 12 months earlier than. Nevertheless, the summer season season — which runs from the primary weekend in Could by way of Labor Day — noticed $3.6 billion in ticket gross sales, receiving a lift from the record-breaking “Inside Out 2” by Disney and Pixar in addition to “Deadpool & Wolverine.” That is a lot better than what these within the trade anticipated regardless of being a ten% decline from the identical interval final 12 months. Heading into the autumn, field workplace analysts anticipate the summer season momentum to proceed and prop up field workplace outcomes for the third quarter.

— CNBC’s Samantha Subin, Sarah Min, Jeff Cox, Michael Ozanian, Kif Leswing and Sarah Whitten contributed to this report.

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