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U.S. STOCKS FLAT AFTER DATA, AHEAD OF MEGACAP EARNINGS

Major U.S. indexes are holding around the unchanged mark in the early stages of trading on Tuesday as investors got their first look at a string of labor market data this week and corporate earnings season ramped up.

U.S. job openings fell to 7.443 million in September, according to the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, or JOLTS report, the Labor Department said. Down from the revised 7.861 million in the prior month, which was revised down from 8.04 million.

The data is the first in a run of labor market data, highlighted by the government payrolls report on Friday.

Investors are also digesting a raft of corporate earnings, with homebuilder D.R. Horton DHI.N tumbling more than 12% as the biggest drag on the S&P 500 .SPX after reporting quarterly results and issuing a disappointing outlook.

On the plus side, F5 Networks FFIV.O is surging more than 11% after it reported earnings and gave an upbeat forecast.

Earnings will continue to flood in after the closing bell, with Google parent Alphabet GOOGL.O set to report results, the first in a string of earnings from megacap companies this week.

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(Chuck Mikolajczak)

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