Friday preview: US non-farm payrolls, Amazon, Apple in focus

By Alexander Bueso

Date: Thursday 01 May 2025

(Sharecast News) - All eyes at the end of the week will be fixated on the release of the US non-farm payrolls report for the month of April.
Economists' forecasts are calling for a 130,000 increase in non-farm payrolls, after March's outsized gain of 228,000.

The rate of unemployment meanwhile is pegged to remain at 4.2% with average hourly earnings seen rising again at a clip of 0.3% month-on-month.

Euro area consumer price figures for the month of April are also scheduled for release, at 0900 GMT.

Earlier, at 0800 GMT, S&P Global will publish its euro area factory sector Purchasing Managers' Index for that same month.

Investors will also be reacting to the latest updates out of Amazon and Apple due out overnight.

The analyst consensus for the two tech giants' latest quarterly earnings per share was $1.61 and $1.35, respectively.

Friday 02 May

INTERIM DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE

Beazley, The European Smaller Companies Trust

QUARTERLY PAYMENT DATE

BlackRock American Income Trust, CT UK High Income Trust, CT UK High Income Trust B

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS

Factory Orders (US) (15:00)

Non-Farm Payrolls (US) (13:30)

Unemployment Rate (EU) (10:00)

Unemployment Rate (US) (13:30)

GMS

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AGMS

DFI Retail Group Holdings Limited (Sing.Reg), Gran Tierra Energy Inc. (CDI), Hongkong Land Holding Ltd. (Sing.Reg), HSBC Holdings, Jardine Matheson Holdings Ltd (Singapore Reg), Mandarin Oriental International (Singapore), Pearson, Pulsar Helium Inc. Npv (Di), Rotork

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Banco Santander S.A., Glanbia (CDI), Globaldata, Smithson Investment Trust

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Air Astana Joint Stock Company Gdr (Each Repr 4 Com Shs) (Reg S), Shell , Standard Chartered

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