U.S. stock futures rose on Thursday after traders digested June’s big jobs report.

Nonfarm payrolls rose by 147,000 in June, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Thursday. That’s above the Dow Jones forecast for 110,000. The unemployment rate also fell to 4.1%, while economists had projected an increase to 4.3%.

Market Snapshot

At 8:45 a.m. ET, Dow e-minis were up 82 points, or 0.18%, S&P 500 E-minis were up 14.25 points, or 0.23%, and Nasdaq 100 E-minis were up 63 points, or 0.28%.

Pre-Market Movers

Tesla was up 0.2% in premarket trading after rising 5% on Wednesday and ending a six-session losing streak even as the electric-vehicle maker posted its worst quarterly decline for deliveries in its history. The company delivered 384,122 cars in the second quarter, down 13.5% from the 444,000 cars delivered a year earlier. The results were better than Wall Street expectations and higher than the 337,000 delivered in the first quarter of 2025.

Lucid, the EV maker, rose 0.3% after reporting 3,309 vehicle deliveries in the second quarter, a record for any quarter, and topping the 2,394 delivered in the same period a year earlier. For the first half of the year, deliveries totaled 6,418, up almost 50% from a year earlier. Competitor Rivian Automotive, meanwhile, delivered 19,301 vehicles in the first half of 2025, down almost 30% year over year. Rivian fell 4.5% on Wednesday after its deliveries numbers were released. The stock rose 0.6% in premarket trading.

Datadog gained 9.2% after it was announced the software maker would replace Juniper Networks in the S&P 500 index beginning July 9. Juniper was acquired by Hewlett Packard Enterprise on Wednesday. Datadog, which makes monitoring and analytics tools for developers and others, has a market capitalization of nearly $47 billion.

Synopsys rose 5% and Cadence Design Systems was up 5.3% after the companies said the U.S. has eased restrictions on exports of semiconductor design software to China. " Synopsys is working to restore access to the recently restricted products in China," the company said in a statement on its website, confirming it had been informed of the restrictions being lifted. "Synopsys is continuing to assess the impact of export restrictions related to China on its business, operating results and financials."

Crypto shares extend rally in premarket trading as Bitcoin rose above $110K while Ethereum rose above $2,600. SharpLink Gaming up 13%; Bit Digital up 3%; Bakkt Holdings, TeraWulf up around 2%.

Shares of health insurer Centene were up 1.9% in premarket trading. They sank 40% on Wednesday after Centene withdrew its fiscal-year earnings guidance because fresh data it had seen on the insurance plans it sells on the Affordable Care Act exchanges were less favorable than anticipated. It was the stock's worst daily percentage decline on record, according to Dow Jones Market Data.

Fellow insurer Molina Healthcare, which also has exposure to the ACA exchanges, tumbled Wednesday, dropping 22% for the stock's worst one-day percentage decrease since June 7, 2012, when it fell 31%. In premarket trading, Molina rose 1.2%.

Tripadvisor was up 7.5% after The Wall Street Journal, citing people familiar with the matter, reported activist investor Starboard Value has built a stake of more than 9% in the online travel-review company.

Market News

Bessent Says Fed ‘A Little Off,’ Flags Signal From Two-Year Rate

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent questioned Federal Reserve policymakers’ judgment on interest rates, reiterating his view that two-year Treasury yields are a signal that their benchmark rate is too high.

“The committee seems to be a little off here in their judgment,” Bessent said in an interview on Fox Business Thursday, referring to the Fed’s rate-setting Federal Open Market Committee.

Tesla's German Car Sales Continue To Fall In June

Tesla's sales volume in Germany fell by 60% in June, the German road traffic agency KBA said on Tuesday, although sales of battery electric vehicles rose overall.

KBA said Tesla sold 1,860 cars in Germany in June, down 60% from a year earlier. The number of Teslas sold in the first half of 2025 dropped 58.2% to 8,890 units, compared with the same period last year.

By contrast, the total number of newly registered electric vehicles increased by 8.6% in June, KBA added.