US employment data and Fed Chairman Jerome Powell's speech, company news and geopolitics
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• U.S. jobs data and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell's speech are likely to be the main events in markets on Friday as investors try to sort out the confusion surrounding U.S. President Donald Trump's rapidly changing trade policy. Investor sentiment about the U.S. economy and markets ahead of Friday's two events is gloomy, and the longer the gloom persists, the higher the bar for overcoming it becomes.
• The nonfarm payrolls report is likely to show a gain of 160,000 jobs in February, following a gain of 143,000 in January, according to a Reuters poll of...