After a quarter of an hour of trading on Wednesday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is up 0.2 percent, but the broad S&P 500 index has fallen 0.1 percent and the technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index has fallen 0.4 percent.
In pre-market trading before the stock market opened, the three indices were up 0.2–0.3 percent – before the November jobs figures from payroll administrator ADP were released.
They showed that the number of private sector jobs in the US fell by 32,000 in the month. This also compares to the increase of 47,000 in October and the expected 10,000 more jobs in November.
This shakes up the market. The dollar loses value against the krona and long-term interest rates on the bond market are pushed down.
