New York – U.S. stocks are ticking higher on Monday and clawing back some of their losses from late last week.

The S&P 500 added 0.4%, coming off its first losing week in the last four. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 29 points, or 0.1%, as of 9:35 a.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 0.6% higher. All three are nearing their all-time highs set a week ago.

This week’s highlight for Wall Street is scheduled to arrive on Friday, when a report will be due about how many jobs U.S. employers created and destroyed last month. The hope on Wall Street is that it will be neither too hot nor too cold and be balanced enough to keep the Federal Reserve on track to cut interest rates several more times.

The Fed just delivered its first cut of the year, and officials have penciled

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