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Wall Street Cheers April Jobs Report
By: CNBC.com | 02 May 2008 | 10:02 AM ET
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Stocks shot out of the gate Friday after a better-than-expected April jobs report.

The Dow industrials gained more than 100 points in the first few minutes of trading. The Nasdaq and S&P 500 also advanced.

Nonfarm payrolls declined by 20,000 jobs last month, but that was far better than the projected loss of 75,000 jobs. The unemployment rate fell to 5 percent, also better than expected. A separate report showed  factory orders rose 1.4 percent in March.

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"This [payrolls number] is exactly what you want to see to continue the rally that we have started to see over the last couple of weeks," Jack Bouroudjian, of Brewer Investment Group, told CNBC. "Keep an eye on the dollar -- that will be the key over the next couple of months -- that will determine if this rally has legs or not," he said.

The dollar rose against the euro to its highest level in two months following the report; the euro dropped as low as $1.5365. Crude oil [US@CL.1  Loading...      ()   ] was trading around $113 a barrel.

Minutes before the April jobs report was released, the Federal Reserve announced that it was expanding the size of its term-auction facility to help ease persistent strains in credit markets.

Financials were mostly higher, with a few exceptions: JPMorgan [JPM  Loading...      ()   ], Bear Stearns [BSC  Loading...      ()   ] and Deutsche Bank [DB  Loading...      ()   ] all declined.

Financial companies face a 40 percent decline in earnings in the second quarter, according to Michael Thompson, managing director of Thomson Reuters.

Airlines retreated after a meteoric rally recently. Among notable decliners were AMR [AMR  Loading...      ()   ], parent of American, and Continental [CAL  Loading...      ()   ].

Chevron [CVX  Loading...      ()   ] reported its earnings rose 10 percent to $5.17 billion as record oil prices outweighed weak profits from gasoline production.

A day earlier, ExxonMobil [XOM  Loading...      ()   ] reported its net income rose 17 percent to $10.9 billion, but fell short of expectations due to squeezed margins.

In tech land, investors are anticipating a definitive move from Microsoft [MSFT  Loading...      ()   ] regarding its attempt to buy Yahoo [YHOO  Loading...      ()   ] .

Microsoft is leaning to making a hostile bid, but Yahoo could also announce a partnership deal with Google [GOOG  Loading...      ()   ] as early as next week to fend off the takeover.

Nortel Networks [NT  Loading...      ()   ] posted a steeper-than-expected loss of $138 million as results were hurt by charges for restructuring, litigation and other items. Still, the telecom-equipment maker said it expects to meet its full-year targets.

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