Market Extra: Monthly jobs data is driving large swings in U.S. stocks this year. Will it happen again on Friday?

The Department of Labor’s monthly labor-market updates have been driving outsize swings in U.S. stocks since the start of 2023, a sign that one of the most closely watched economic data reports has regained some of the relevance it ceded to the inflation data last year.

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