Nasdaq climbs about 1.4 percent after Thursday’s rout as BLS reports 165,000 October jobs, Reuters and BBC say

U.S. equity desks spent Friday trying to claw back ground after Thursday’s AI-linked rout, while a stronger-than-expected jobs print from Washington gave traders a second tape to parse. The Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Situation for October, released at 8:30 a.m. ET on Nov. 6, 2026, said total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 165,000 and that the unemployment rate changed little at 4.1 percent. Reuters, the BBC, the Guardian, Yahoo Finance, and CNBC all carried the 165,000 figure the same day. This desk read the BLS release text as a saved copy under src/.

The BLS release puts the gain above the average monthly rise of 48,000 over the prior 12 months and points to gains in professional and business services, health care, and transportation and warehousing. It also says the unemployment rate has stayed in a narrow 4.1 percent to 4.3 percent band since March, that the labor force participation rate stood at 61.9 percent, and that average hourly earnings for all private nonfarm employees rose 14 cents, or 0.4 percent, to $38.00. Revisions lifted August’s change by 53,000 to +186,000 and September’s by 31,000 to +60,000, the release says, so those two months combined sit 84,000 higher than previously reported.

Market percentages on Friday depend on the clock and the outlet. A Reuters note on Euronext timed the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 0.08 percent, the S&P 500 up 0.71 percent, and the Nasdaq Composite up 1.4 percent, with the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index up 4.2 percent. The BBC matched the Nasdaq +1.4 percent reading, put the S&P up about 0.7 percent, and called the Dow flat. Yahoo Finance’s live blog at times put the Nasdaq near +1.6 percent and the S&P near +0.7 percent, then later near +1.4 percent — a reminder that intraday prints move. This desk treats those Friday index moves as mid-session, outlet-timed snapshots, not a final close.

Chip names led the bounce in the same Reuters and BBC accounts. Reuters wrote that Nvidia rose 3 percent after what it called Nvidia’s worst day since January 2025, and that AMD, Intel, and Micron rose between 5.5 percent and 10 percent, with Tesla up 2 percent and SpaceX up 8 percent. The BBC wrote that Nvidia traded up more than 3 percent after a slide of more than 9 percent on Thursday, that AMD had risen about 10 percent and Micron more than 5 percent, and that SpaceX and Tesla showed gains above 8 percent and nearly 5 percent respectively. Where those stock-level percentages differ, the story keeps each outlet’s own figures.

Thursday’s damage still framed the week. The BBC and Guardian both wrote that the Nasdaq fell 5.5 percent on Thursday; Reuters and the BBC described trillions of dollars wiped from world stock-market value on fears that Democratic midterm gains would bring tighter U.S. rules for AI and data centers. The Guardian added that SanDisk led chip declines in that Thursday slump. Seems News already published a separate Thursday-close Nasdaq story; this page covers Friday’s rebound attempt and the October jobs print.

Asia and Europe did not join the Wall Street bounce in the Friday accounts this desk checked. Reuters wrote that Europe’s STOXX 600 lost 1 percent and that Japan’s Nikkei and South Korea’s Kospi each slumped about 6 percent, calling the Nikkei drop the biggest one-day decline since April 2025’s “Liberation Day” tariff panic. The Guardian put the Nikkei down 6 percent and the Kospi down more than 6.5 percent. The BBC wrote that the Kospi closed down 6 percent with SK Hynix down more than 10 percent, and that Germany’s, France’s, and Spain’s main indexes ended lower, with the FTSE 100 down 1.01 percent.

Rates and the dollar reacted to the payrolls beat. Reuters wrote that the 10-year Treasury yield ticked up to 4.85 percent after an overnight slide, and that annual wage growth came in at 3.1 percent rather than slipping below 3 percent. CNBC wrote that the dollar index jumped about 0.63 percent to 102.12 after the Labor Department print, that economists polled by Reuters had expected about 65,000 jobs, and that CME FedWatch odds for at least a 25-basis-point December hike moved back toward about 80 percent. Yahoo Finance also cited a 65,000 consensus in places and about 70,000 in others; this desk notes that range and keeps the BLS 165,000 primary figure.

Attribution gaps deserve a flag. The BBC’s first jobs paragraph in the saved page said “165,000 jobs added to the economy in September,” then a later section correctly said October and cited BLS for the 4.1 percent to 4.3 percent unemployment band. This desk follows the BLS primary (October) and treats the BBC’s early “September” line as an outlet slip, not as a second official count. The Reuters Euronext reprint names Chibuike Oguh and Marc Jones; the BBC names Rachel Clun.

Primary documents still govern the labor tape. The BLS Employment Situation Summary carries the USDL-26-1632 embargo line for 8:30 a.m. ET Friday, Nov. 6, 2026, and schedules the November release for Friday, Dec. 4, 2026. Market percentages above come from Reuters, BBC, Guardian, Yahoo Finance, and CNBC copies saved under src/; this desk did not wait for the official U.S. cash close before publishing. Times convert to Pacific Time (UTC−8).