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Revelio Labs, another private data source, showed the U.S. lost 9,100 nonfarm jobs in October, the international economist and currency strategist adds.

“The lengthy government shutdown could continue to weigh on sentiment and drive demand for the safe-haven asset as its impact on the economy deepens,” says Christopher Tahir, senior market strategist at Exness, in an email.

Growth stocks are the best place to be positioned in 2026 across all three markets, because bond yields, rather than earnings growth, is the key performance determinant, a strategist says.

The ADP private payrolls report was slightly above expectations and the ISM services-sector activity index surprised to the upside, the senior FX strategist notes.

When Wall Street strategists talk about breadth, they’re referring to the number of individual stocks contributing to an index’s advance.