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Difference Between Nasdaq and Dow Jones explained for 2025 investors. Compare performance, volatility, and investment opportunities this year.

Explain the differences between Nasdaq and Dow Jones for investors in 2025, comparing the performance, volatility, and investment opportunities of the two indices.

How should markets interpret the July us non-farm payrolls? Why have rising rate-cut expectations depressed risk assets? Rewind to the same juncture last year: a deceleration in labour-market indicators triggered the "Sahm Rule", prompting investors to price in a simultaneous recession-and-stagflation scenario. Today, a comparable capitulation is unfolding. Does this suggest the current draw-down is only beginning?

The dollar edged higher against the euro and yen on Thursday following progress in U.S. trade talks with key partners.

The U.S. Department of Labor reported Friday that the labor market recovery continued in March. Overall employment increased by 431,000 in March. The unemployment rate declined by 0.2 percentage points to 3.6%, still 0.1 percentage points higher than the pre-pandemic level. Although the increase in employment was slightly below market expectations, employment valuations for both January and February were corrected upward. The U.S. monthly average growth for Q1 2022 was 562,000 jobs, with a limited overall impact on gold prices.

Gold experienced an explosive spike and a surprisingly sharp pullback this past week; the factors that drove the price spike are apparent, yet there was clearly a significant risk premium for a sharp pullback, prompting institutional profit-taking. This week, when the market's attention will turn to Fed Chairman Powell's testimony and Friday's non-farm payrolls data, gold should return to its proper "financial" properties.

The Minutes of the Fed's January meeting suggested that if economic developments were generally consistent with the committee's expectations, the federal funds rate's target range could rise faster than it had in 2015. According to the CME Fed Watch tool, it means the market sees the Fed raising rates four to five times in 2022; So will the Fed's rate hike lead to a crash?

U.S. nonfarm payrolls increased by 467,000 in January, well above market expectations of 150,000. Last month's figure was also revised up sharply to 510,000 from 199,000. Employment remains 2.9 million below pre-pandemic levels. The unemployment rate rose to 4.0% from 3.9%, above expectations of 3.9%. The labor force participation rate rose from 61.9 percent to 62.2 percent. Average hourly earnings rose 0.7% sequentially, beating market expectations of 0.5%.