▸ US stocks edge higher in advance of high-stakes Nvidia earn­ings

▸ Delay to jobs data sup­presses momentum for Amer­ican indices

▸ European stocks close flat after shak­ing off early losses

US stocks edged higher in choppy trad­ing yes­ter­day, in a ses­sion char­ac­ter­ised by anti­cip­a­tion ahead of a high-stakes Nvidia earn­ings along­side nerves about the state of the US employ­ment mar­ket.

The Nas­daq Com­pos­ite rose as much as 1.7 per cent in early trad­ing yes­ter­day morn­ing, but fell back later in the day fol­low­ing the announce­ment that cru­cial US employ­ment data for Octo­ber would not be released as expec­ted.

By early after­noon in New York, the Nas­daq Com­pos­ite and the S&P 500 were both 0.1 per cent higher.

The Bur­eau of Labor Stat­ist­ics, respons­ible for the closely watched jobs data that traders use to gauge US interest rate expect­a­tions, said it will not pub­lish its Octo­ber employ­ment report this week as planned, due to the recent US fed­eral gov­ern­ment shut­down ham­per­ing data col­lec­tion.