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The S&P 500 added 0.8% on Thursday, Sept. 4, 2025, with private-sector payroll data showing a hiring slowdown in August as investors awaited Friday's key jobs report.
Major U.S. equities indexes advanced on Thursday as a report showed a month-over-month decline in private-sector hiring in August. The latest signal of a cooling labor market came a day before the release of the August jobs report by the Bureau of La... [2670 chars]