By Hannah Erin Lang

"The June payroll release came in cooler than anticipated, which should take some of the pressure off the Fed to hike rates in the coming months...Today's print is a positive for risk assets."

-Jeff Schulze, head of economic and market strategy at ClearBridge Investments.

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