Canada Stocks: TSX futures edge higher ahead of U.S. jobs data

Rogers Sugar

03/05/2019 12:28

May 3 (Reuters) - Futures for Canada's main stock index were
higher on Friday, ahead of the closely watched U.S. jobs data.
    U.S. employment figures are due at 0830 a.m. ET, which are
forecast to show that 185,000 net new jobs were added in April
and the unemployment rate at a steady 3.8 percent.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL1N22E1H0
    June futures on the S&P/TSX index  SXFc1  were up 0.32
percent at 7:00 a.m. ET.
    The Toronto Stock Exchange's S&P/TSX  .GSPTSE  fell 91.87
points, or 0.56 percent, to 16,410.88 on Thursday. urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL5N22E7XQ
    Dow Jones Industrial Average e-mini futures  1YMc1  were up
0.24 percent at 7:00 a.m. ET, while S&P 500 e-mini futures
 ESc1  edged up 0.27 percent and Nasdaq 100 e-mini futures
 NQc1  were up 0.48 percent.  .N 
    
       
    ANALYST RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS  RCH/CA 
    Cronos Group Inc  CRON.TO : Jefferies cuts price target to
C$15 from C$17 
    Manulife Financial Corp  MFC.TO : Eight Capital raises price
target to C$30 from C$28 
    Rogers Sugar Inc  RSI.TO : Desjardins cuts price target to
C$6 from C$6.25
    
    
    COMMODITIES AT 7:00 a.m. ET  COM/WRAP 
    Gold futures  GCc2 : $1,271; -0.08 percent  GOL/ 
    US crude  CLc1 : $61.77; -0.06 percent  O/R 
    Brent crude  LCOc1 : $70.46; -0.41 percent  O/R 


    U.S. ECONOMIC DATA DUE ON FRIDAY
    0830 Non-farm payrolls for Apr: Expected 185,000; Prior
196,000
    0830 Private payrolls for Apr: Expected 180,000; Prior
182,000
    0830 Manufacturing payrolls for Apr: Expected 10,000; Prior
-6,000
    0830 Government payrolls for Apr: Prior 14,000
    0830 Unemployment rate for Apr: Expected 3.8 pct; Prior 3.8
pct
    0830 Average earnings mm for Apr: Expected 0.3 pct; Prior
0.1 pct
    0830 Average earnings yy for Apr: Expected 3.3 pct; Prior
3.2 pct
    0830 Average workweek hours for Apr: Expected 34.5 hrs;
Prior 34.5 hrs
    0830 Labor force partic for Apr: Prior 63 pct
    0830 U6 underemployment for Apr: Prior 7.3 pct
    0830 Advance goods trade balance for Mar: Prior -80.39 bln
    0830 Wholesale inventories advance for Mar: Expected 0.3
pct; Prior 0.9 pct
    0830 Retail inventories ex-auto advance for Mar: Prior 1 pct
    0945 Markit Composite Final PMI for Apr: Prior 52.8
    0945 Markit Services PMI Final for Apr: Prior 52.9
    1000 ISM N-Manufacturing PMI for Apr: Expected 57; Prior
56.1
    1000 ISM N-Manufacturing Business Activity for Apr: Expected
58.8; Prior 57.4
    1000 ISM N-Manufacturing Employment Index for Apr: Prior
55.9
    1000 ISM N-Manufacturing New Orders Index for Apr: Prior 59
    1000 ISM N-Manufacturing Price Paid Index for Apr: Prior
58.7
    
    FOR CANADIAN MARKETS NEWS, CLICK ON CODES:
    TSX market report  .TO 
    Canadian dollar and bonds report  CAD/   CA/ 
    Reuters global stocks poll for Canada  EQUITYPOLL1 
 EPOLL/CA 
    Canadian markets directory  CANADA 
 ($1=C$1.35)

 (Reporting by Pathikrit Bandyopadhyay in Bengaluru; Editing by
James Emmanuel)
 ((pathikrit.bandyopadhyay@thomsonreuters.com))