Investors head into Good Friday on a high note following Thursday's gains

Top laggard ProShares Ultra Bloomberg Natural Gas gave up 40 cents, or 11.66% Thursday United States Natural Gas Fund LP (down 5.6%), iShares Trust – iShares iBonds Dec 2021 Term Treasury ETF (down 0.039%) also underperformed Thursday.
FTSE is up by 1.03%, hitting 7,741.56.

Markets are closed due to the Good Friday holiday but will reopen Monday. Looking back over the previous session, markets closed higher Thursday, as Nasdaq ended the session at 12,100 after a 0.76% gain. S&P 500 gained 0.36% and closed at 4,105.

US traders are set to return to their desks Monday. Meanwhile, elsewhere in equities, European markets closed higher Thursday whilst FTSE is up by 1.03%, hitting 7,741.56. Asia-Pacific markets ended a mixed session yesterday whilst KOSPI Composite Index moves up by 1.27%, reaching 2,490.41.

Uptick coincides with some positive signs published earlier as data for United States Unemployment Rate published yesterday at 12:30 UTC came out at 3.5, beating projections of 3.6 and showing improvement over the preceding figure of 3.6.

On a negative note, the market received some disappointing news as data from United States concerning Non Farm Payrolls was released yesterday at 12:30 UTC. Newly published figures emphasized continued decline from last month's figure of 326,000 to 236,000 this month. United States Initial Jobless Claims fell short of the 200,000 projections, with new data of 228,000.

Thursday's bullishness contained stragglers as ProShares Ultra Bloomberg Natural Gas closed at $3.03 having dropped 11.66%. United States Natural Gas Fund LP (down 5.6%), iShares Trust – iShares iBonds Dec 2021 Term Treasury ETF (down 0.039%) also underperformed Thursday.

IShares Trust – iShares iBonds Dec 2021 Term Treasury ETF | Ended Thursday's session at $25.35