According to Reuters, a strong payroll report from the Labor Department sparked a rally on Wall Street ahead of the weekend.<br />The jobs report indicated that the US economy added over 300,000 nonfarm payroll jobs during December, 2018.<br />But investors flocked back to stocks after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell suggested the central bank would be more flexible with monetary policy in 2019.<br />By the afternoon on Jan. 4th, the Dow Jones Industrial Average spiked 3.1-percent, adding 710-points, while rising to 23,396.<br />The S&P 500 also jumped 3.1-percent, with its top eleven sectors trading up.<br />But the Nasdaq Composite led gains on the day, rising over 4-percent, with 268-points in gains. <br />
