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A take a look at the day ahead in U.S. and international markets from Mike Dolan Another forecast miss out on from a U.S. megacap integrates with care ahead of January's employment report to keep a cover on stocks into Friday's open - with resilient long-dated Treasuries squashing the yield curve to its flattest for the year.

Just like Microsoft and Alphabet over the past number of weeks, Amazon dissatisfied Wall Street late Thursday as issue about cloud computing splashed revenue and earnings projections and sent its stock down 4% over night.

The most recent underwhelming outlook from the "Magnificent 7" leading U.S. tech firms control an otherwise upbeat S&P 500, with questions about heavy invests in expert system ignited again by the development of China's inexpensive DeepSeek model.

The DeepSeek buzz, by contrast, continues to fire up Chinese stocks. They included another 1%-plus earlier on Friday regardless of continuous issues about a mounting Sino-U.S. trade war and Monday's deadline for Beijing's retaliatory tariffs.

But the day's macro events will likely take precedence, with the release of the January U.S. employment report and long-term revisions of past job creation.

Job development likely slowed to 170,000 in January from simply over quarter of million the prior month, partially restrained by wild fires in California and cold weather condition throughout much of the country.

Those distortions include an additional problem to the readout, which will consist of annual benchmark revisions, new population weights and updates to the .

The week's sweep of other labor market reports, nevertheless, do point to some cooling of conditions - with task openings falling, layoffs increasing and weekly unemployed claims ticking greater.

With the Federal Reserve already trying to parse the effect of President Donald Trump's brand-new financial policies, payroll distortions just cloud the image even further.

And as Fed officials insist they can wait and see for a bit, Fed futures remain trained on two more rates of interest cuts this year - resuming about midyear.

The Treasury market is more encouraged though - sustaining the early week's sharp drop in 10-year yields into today's tasks report and seeing the 2-to-10 year yield curve compress to the flattest it's remained in six weeks.

Helping the long end today has been reassuring signals from the Treasury's quarterly reimbursing report that a "calling out" of financial obligation auctions to longer maturities is not yet in the works, as lots of had feared.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has also firmly insisted the new government's focus would be on getting long-lasting rates down instead of pushing the Fed to alleviate too soon.

Reuters analysis reveals Trump has positioned hangs on 10s of billions of dollars in congressionally-approved spending for jobs throughout the U.S. that vary from Iowa soybean farmers embracing greener practices to a Virginia railway expansion.

Bessent also doubled down on his view the administration wants to retain a "strong dollar" policy. But he colored that with a sideswipe. "What we put on ´ t desire is other nations to weaken their currencies, to manipulate their trade."

But with the Fed on hold, main banks around the globe continued reducing rate of interest apace this week - partly on concerns a trade tariff war will compromise their economies.

With a sharp cut in its UK development projection, the Bank of England cut its policy rate by a quarter point on Thursday - with two of its policymakers voting for a bigger half point decrease. Sterling compromised at first, but has actually steadied since.

Mexico's main bank also cut its rates of interest by 50 basis points on Thursday - stating it could cut by a comparable magnitude in the future as inflation cools and after the economy contracted slightly late in 2015.

The European Reserve bank, meantime, is anticipated to release its upgraded price quote of what it views as a "neutral" interest rate later on Friday.

That's important as it informs the ECB argument about whether it requires to cut rates below what thinks about neutral to restore the flagging euro zone economy. It's presently seen around 2% - 75bps listed below the standing policy rate.

In thrall to the payrolls release, the dollar index was steady on Friday. Dollar/yen briefly notched a brand-new low for timeoftheworld.date the year, nevertheless, as Bank of Japan tightening up speculation simmers.

In Europe, stocks stalled near record highs as the heavy profits season there unfolded.

Banks there have actually a been a standout winner today and again on Friday. Danske Bank, Denmark's biggest lender, was up 7.1% after it published record annual earnings and launch a brand-new share buyback programme.

Key advancements that must supply more direction to U.S. markets later on Friday: * U.S. January work report, University of Michigan February consumer study, December consumer credit; Canada Jan employment report; Mexico Jan inflation * European Reserve bank updates its price quote of "R *" neutral interest rate * Federal Reserve Board Governors Michelle Bowman and Adriana Kugler speak; Bank of England Chief Economist Huw Pill speaks * U.S. business revenues: Cboe Global Markets, Fortive, Kimco Realty * Japan Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba visits United States

(By Mike Dolan, editing by XXXX mike.dolan@thomsonreuters.com)