Wall Street ends up on jobs data, debt default averted
Nasdaq posts best weekly winning streak since Jan 2020
Data shows jobless rate at 3.7% in May; wage growth moderates
Amazon up on report of its talks for low-cost mobile services
Materials lead S&P sector gains, Nvidia slips again
Adds final market closing data
By Herbert Lash and Shreyashi Sanyal
June 2 (Reuters) -U.S. stocks closed higher on Friday after a labor market report showing moderating wage growth in May indicated the Federal Reserve may skip a rate hike in two weeks, while investors welcomed a Washington deal that avoided a catastrophic debt default.
The tech-heavy Nasdaq index .IXIC surged to a 13-month intraday high and posted its sixth-straight week of gains that marked its best winning streak since January 2020.
U.S. job growth accelerated in May but a surge in the unemployment rate to a seven-month high of 3.7% as more people looking for employment indicated labor market conditions were easing, the Labor Department said.
The jump in the unemployment rate from a 53-year low of 3.4% in April reflected a drop in household employment and a rise in the overall workforce. A bigger labor pool is easing pressure on businesses to raise wages and helping decelerate inflation.
"While it appears to be a hot number on the actual number of people employed, the wage rate is not increasing as fast," said Kim Forrest, chief investment officer at Bokeh Capital Partners in Pittsburgh. "That is a softening effect and is this the mythical soft landing? Looks like that."
The data brought relief to investors who mostly expect the Fed to pause hiking rates at its policy meeting on June 13-14. It would be the first halt since the Fed started its aggressive anti-inflation policy tightening more than a year ago.
But some pointed to the much hotter-than-expected jobs data as a sign the Fed still has not yet tamed inflation.
"Our view is and has been that the market is completely wrong on assessing what the Federal Reserve is doing," said Phil Orlando, chief equity strategist at Federated Hermes in New York.
"The market's perception is that this economy was going to cool, inflation was going to collapse and the Fed was going to turn around and start cutting interest rates. That's wrong."
Fed funds futures showed a 71.3% probability that the Fed will hold rates steady in two weeks, down from 79.6% on Thursday, according to CME Group's FedWatch Tool.
Markets now await data on key consumer prices a day before the Fed's rate decision in two weeks.
The Senate passing a bill late on Thursday to lift the government's $31.4 trillion debt ceiling avoidedwhat would havebeen a catastrophic, first-ever default.
Passage of the vote eased investor concerns as Wall Street's fear gauge, the CBOE volatility index .VIX, fell to its lowest since November 2021, down 1.1 points at 14.6 points.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI rose 701.19 points, or 2.12%, to 33,762.76, the S&P 500 .SPX gained 61.35 points, or 1.45%, to 4,282.37 and the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC added 139.78 points, or 1.07%, to 13,240.77.
For the week, the S&P 500 rose 1.82%, the Dow added 2.02% and the Nasdaq gained 2.04%
Volume on U.S. exchanges was 11.05 billion shares, compared with about 10.58 billion average for the full session over the last 20 trading days.
Shares of Verizon Communications Inc VZ.N, AT&T Inc T.N and T-Mobile US Inc TMUS.O declined after a report said Amazon.com Inc AMZN.O was in talks with the U.S. telecoms to offer low-cost wireless services to its Prime members.
Verizon slid 3.2%, while AT&T and T-Mobile declined 3.8% and 5.6%, respectively; Amazon gained 1.2%.
All 11 S&P 500 sectors advanced, with the materials index.SPLRCM leading, up 3.4%, andthe consumer discretionary sector .SPLRCD, housing Amazon, close behind, rising 2.2%.
Nvidia Corp NVDA.O slid 1.1% for a second day of declines after briefly entering on Wednesday the elite club of megacap stocks valued at $1 trillion or more on hopes artificial intelligence will deliver significant future returns.
But Nvidia's almost 170% rise year to date highlights investors face of a market dominated by the out-performance of megacaps while most other companies tread water.
"Nobody’s really explained to me how they’re going to make any money from it," said Michael Landsberg, chief investment officer at Landsberg Bennett Private Wealth Management in Punta Gorda, Florida. "A company like Nvidia going up so much in such a short period of time, that doesn't make any rational sense."
Advancing issues outnumbered declining ones on the NYSE by a 4.75-to-1 ratio; on Nasdaq, a 2.73-to-1 ratio favored advancers.
The S&P 500 posted 15 new 52-week highs and two new lows; the Nasdaq Composite recorded 74 new highs and 40 new lows.
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Reporting by Herbert Lash, additional reporting by Shreyashi Sanyal, Shristi Achar A and Shashwat Chauhan,
in Bengaluru; Editing by Nivedita Bhattacharjee and Maju Samuel
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