The unemployment rate, typically a measure of financial hardship, fell to 10.2% in July.

Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading.

The Dow and S&P 500 eked out their sixth straight gains as a strong jobs report outweighed U.S.-China tensions and concerns about a new fiscal stimulus package.

Berkshire announced it bought $5.1 billion of its own shares during the second quarter as the pandemic dented the conglomerate’s operations.

The app-based bank said it had seen lending activity spike thanks to the U.K. government’s emergency coronavirus financing schemes.

The stocks making the biggest moves in premarket trading include TripAdvisor, T-Mobile US, FedEx, Uber, and more.

The appointment of Mathew McDermott means the newest face of blockchain and cryptocurrency on Wall Street isn’t a starry-eyed bitcoin evangelist, but a 46-year-old veteran of old-school financing markets.

Goldman Sachs on Friday lowered its previously stated quarterly net earnings applicable to common shareholders to $197 million from $2.25 billion.

Brown Brothers Harriman’s Win Thin expects the dollar to bottom later this year.

Fintech companies in Asia saw their capital raise fall around 37% from $2.56 billion in the first quarter to $1.62 billion in the second, a CB Insights report said.