Business Bible News Market Minute: September 11 @ 12:00PM ET

In today's BBNews Market Minute, applications for US unemployment benefits have surged to the highest level in almost four years, suggesting a rise in layoffs. Meanwhile, Oracle's strong performance has buoyed futures, although the overall stock market remained sluggish. In job-related news, Novo Nordisk is cutting nine thousand positions as part of a significant transformation.Global markets are mixed, with the Shanghai Composite up sixty-two points. In the US, the S&P 500 is up forty-nine points, the Dow Jones is up five hundred fifty-five points, and the Nasdaq is up one hundred forty-three points. The 10 year Treasury yield stands at four point zero two.In commodities, Brent Crude is down one dollar, while gold has increased by twenty-seven dollars. Today's Daily Principle from Genesis speaks to the importance of work, highlighting that God placed man in the garden to cultivate it and guard it.