NEW YORK — U.S. stocks rose to a record on Thursday as Wall Street made its final moves ahead of an update on the job market, one that could clear the way for the cuts to interest rates that investors love.

The S&P 500 added 0.8 percent to top the all-time high it set last week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 350 points, or 0.8 percent, and the Nasdaq composite gained 1 percent.

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Stocks got some lift from easing pressure from the bond market, where Treasury yields fell following the latest reports on the U.S. job market to come in worse than economists expected. One report suggested employers, not including the government, nearly halved their hiring in August from the prior month. Another said that more workers applied for unemployment benefits last week in

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