What the bad jobs report means for markets
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* Cisco set for best day in eight months
* Disney rises after smaller-than-expected loss
* Futures up: Dow and S&P 0.7%, Nasdaq 0.6%
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By Medha Singh and Shivani Kumaresan
Nov 13 (Reuters) - Wall Street was set to open higher on
Friday as Disney and Cisco jumped after reporting upbeat
results, but investors remained cautious at the end of a
volatile trading week that saw record surges in coronavirus
cases as well as increased hopes of an effective vaccine.
Cisco Systems Inc CSCO.O and Walt Disney Co DIS.N were
the top gainers among Dow .DJI components trading before the
bell. Futures tracking the blue-chip index .1YMcv1 were 0.7%
higher.
The network gear maker jumped 7.2% premarket as it gained
from a work-from-home driven surge in demand, while Disney rose
3% as its rapidly growing streaming video business, and a
partial recovery at its theme parks limited its quarterly loss.
"We are finishing an extremely strong earnings season with
an exclamation point on Disney's impressive earnings," said Ryan
Detrick, senior market strategist at LPL Financial in Charlotte,
North Carolina.
"Corporate America is still optimistic about the future and
that's helping stocks recover, along with positive vaccine news
earlier this week."
The third-quarter earnings season is in its final stretch
with about 90% of S&P 500 companies having reported so far,
according to Refinitiv IBES data. Overall profit is expected to
fall 7.8% from last year, a significant improvement from a 21.4%
slump forecast on Oct. 1.
Wall Street's major indexes broadly fell on Thursday as U.S.
coronavirus cases jumped and investors weighed how fast an
effective vaccine would be rolled out.
More than a dozen U.S. states reported a doubling of new
COVID-19 cases in the last two weeks, with Chicago's mayor
issuing a month-long stay-at-home advisory on Thursday.
Positive data from a late-stage vaccine development earlier
this week lifted demand for sectors that usually benefit from an
upswing in the economy, such as financial and energy stocks,
putting the S&P 500 .SPX and Dow .DJI on track for weekly
gains.
The tech-heavy Nasdaq .IXIC , however, is headed for a
weekly decline as investors booked profits in market-leading
technology stocks, which have benefited from a stay-at-home
environment.
At 08:21 a.m. ET, Dow E-minis 1YMcv1 were up 0.73% and S&P
500 E-minis EScv1 were up 0.67%. Nasdaq 100 E-minis NQcv1
were up 0.62%.
Heavyweights Apple Inc AAPL.O , Microsoft Corp MSFT.O and
Amazon.com Inc AMZN.O edged up about half a percent, while big
Wall Street banks also rose about 0.7% each.