us stock futures traded slightly higher in early premarket trade ahead of the allimportant jobs report for the month of september analysts expect nonfarm payrolls rising 475000 in september following weakerthanexpected increase of 235000 in the previous month the unemployment rate is projected to decline to 51 from 52 data on wholesale inventories for august will be released at 1000 am et futures for the dow jones industrial average jumped 39 points to 3467700 while the standard  poor’s 500 index futures gained 350 points to 439350 futures for the nasdaq 100 index rose 075 points to 1488200 the us has the highest number of covid19 cases and deaths in the world with total infections in the country exceeding 44157050 with around 710160 deaths india reported a total of at least 33894310 confirmed cases while brazil confirmed over 21532550 cases oil prices traded higher as brent crude futures rose 09 to trade at 8265 per barrel while us wti crude futures rose 09 to trade at 7898 a barrel us naturalgas supplies climbed 118 billion cubic feet last week the energy information administration said thursday the baker hughes north american rig count report for the latest week is scheduled for release at 100 pm et european markets were higher today the spanish ibex index rose 12 and stoxx europe 600 index gained 08 the french cac 40 index fell 03 london’s ftse 100 gained 01 while german dax 30 dropped 01 german current account surplus shrank to eur 118 billion in august from eur 167 billion in the yearago month while trade surplus narrowed to €107 billion from €119 billion asian markets traded higher today japan’s nikkei 225 rose 134 while hong kong’s hang seng index climbed 055 and china’s shanghai composite gained 067 australia’s spasx 200 rose 087 and india’s bse sensex surged 06 australian building permits climbed by 68 to 18716 units in august japanese current account surplus shrank to jpy 16656 billion in august from jpy 20852 billion in the yearago period while household spending fell 30 annually in real terms average cash earnings in japan increased 07 yearoveryear in august the reserve bank of india held its benchmark repo rate at 4 during its recent meeting the caixin china general services pmi surged to 534 in september from 467 a month ago jp morgan downgraded jb hunt transport services inc nasdaq jbht from neutral to underweight and announced a 150 price target check out other major ratings here   at its annual shareholder meeting tesla inc’s nasdaq tsla ceo elon musk announced plans to move its headquarters to austin texas the company also said cybertruck will enter production in 2022   allogene therapeutics inc nasdaq llo disclosed that the fda placed a hold on the companys allocar t clinical trials   quidel corporation nasdaq qdel issued sales guidance for the third quarter and said it shipped over 45 million sars tests over the quarter   agile therapeutics inc nasdaq agrx reported an offering of common stock and warrants check out other breaking news here