U.S. investors will hop right back to work on Easter Monday, after the confluence of Good Friday and “jobs day” required an abbreviated trading session for stock-index futures and Treasurys.
Because Good Friday isn’t a federal holiday, the U.S. Labor Department released the March jobs report at its usual time of 8:30 a.m. Eastern. U.S. stock exchanges and most markets were closed Friday, but U.S. stock-index futures on the CME remained open until 9:15 a.m., giving investors a 45-minute window to trade the employment data….