Stock Market Today: Dow Slides 500 Points Ahead Of Jobs Report; Nvidia Stock Leads Tech Rebound (Live Coverage)

Investor's Business Daily · SCOTT LEHTONEN · 2026-11-06 13:02 UTC

Stock Market Today: The Dow Jones index sells off 500 points ahead of the October jobs report. Nvidia stock leads the tech rebound.

Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average and other major stock indexes traded sharply mixed Friday ahead of the Labor Department's pivotal October jobs report. Meanwhile, Nvidia (NVDA) and Cloudflare (NET) were early winners on the stock market today.

Ahead of Friday's open, Dow futures declined 1%, or more than 500 points, while S&P 500 futures added 0.1%. Nasdaq-100 futures rebounded 1.4% in recent morning trades. On Thursday, the tech-heavy Nasdaq composite plummeted 5.5%, as the S&P 500 and Dow Jones industrials tumbled 4.4% and 3.4%, respectively.

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