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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. job growth slowed marginally in April and employers continued to hoard workers, but the outlook for the labor market is increasingly darkening as President Donald Trump's protectionist trade policy heightens economic uncertainty. The Labor Department's closely watched employment report published on Friday, which also showed the unemployment rate held steady at 4.2% last month, helped to assuage fears that the economy was close to recession after gross domestic product contracted in the first quarter amid a tariff-induced flood of imports.

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Fast-food chain Wendy’s (NASDAQ:WEN) met Wall Street’s revenue expectations in Q1 CY2025, but sales fell by 2.1% year on year to $523.5 million. Its non-GAAP profit of $0.20 per share was in line with analysts’ consensus estimates.

SAO PAULO (Reuters) -The U.S. financial regulator's approval last month of a proposal by the world's largest meatpacker JBS to list on the New York Stock Exchange is drawing strong criticism from climate and animal rights groups but praise from Wall Street. In multiple statements after April 22, when Brazil's JBS said the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) greenlit its dual-listing plan to broaden its investor pool and raise its valuation closer to peers, environment activists and animal rights lobbies have unleashed a campaign condemning it. They cited sprawling criminal investigations into JBS or its controllers in Brazil and in the U.S., as well as concerns over the deforestation of the Amazon and the company's outsized role as a large global emitter of greenhouse gases in the course of its operations.

The oil and gas giant earned $7.71 billion, or $1.76 per share, for the three months ended March 31. The results topped Wall Street expectations, but Exxon does not adjust its reported results based on one-time events such as asset sales. Analysts polled by Zacks Investment Research expected earnings of $1.74 per share.