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Good morning, well a record rise in U.S. employment with 4.8 million jobs being added in June and a drop in the U.S. unemployment rate to 11.1%, both significantly better numbers than expected, saw U.S. equities charge overnight.

Boeing also completed its recertification flights for its grounded 737 Max jets which added to the gains.

The Nasdaq scaled to another record high after gaining 0.5%, the S&P500 followed up by the same amount while the Dow Jones gained 92 points 0.4%.

Now over the week to Thursday, the Nasdaq ended 4.6% higher, that’s its best weekly gain in almost two months.

The S&P500 up 4%, the Dow up 3.3% over the four trading days.

Now on the commodity front, the oil price guzzled up 2% to US$40.29, gold put on a bit of a show hitting an eight-year high US$1,787 and the copper price rose 1%.

A different story for the iron ore price which stumbled 4.8% lower erasing about a month of gains.

Now what to watch today, well the Aussie share market is tipped to rise 0.6% according to the SPI futures and so far the Aussie share market is on track to close off its best week in five weeks after rising 2.2% percent from Monday to Thursday.

Keeping in mind the Aussie share market is now up about 33% from its bear market COVID-19 bottom, also keep in mind U.S. markets are shut on Friday for the 4th of July holiday.

In terms of local economic data out today, retail sales are out for the month of May, the market is pricing in a 16.3% jump following the 17.7% landslide that we saw in April.

Now ending on three local trading ideas, well firstly Bell Potter has increased its price target for the funder manager Janus Henderson (ASX:JHG) to $41.25, noting it’s set to benefit from the mark to markets rally in the June quarter given that the market rose in entirety up over 6%.

The company Janus Henderson is also set to benefit from its ongoing share buyback which is underway.

Now Janus Henderson also has an attractive dividend yield of almost 7%. Janus Henderson is a Bell Potter buy.

Another stock that’s a beneficiary of the market bounce is financial platform Netwealth (ASX:NWL), its shares are already up 19% this year and given the market has rallied 16% in the June quarter Netwealth’s revenue and earnings are tipped to be at the top end of their guidance and you would expect that would push their share price further higher.

Now Bell Potter upped it’s buy rating for the platform giving it a price target of $9.10 for Netwealth.

Thirdly Webjet (ASX:WEB) was reiterated as a UBS buy as select destinations are reopening for leisurely travel and its also got more fire power up its sleeve after raising $163 million in convertible notes.

UBS increased Webjet’s price target to $5.35.

I’m Jessica Amir from Bell Direct, stay safe, happy trading, bye for now.