Investors expect a big stock-market move after the February jobs report is released Friday morning. Pricing in the options market shows traders were recently betting on a 1.7% move in the S&P 500 index,

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Wall Street is getting its own kind of reprieve Friday, and U.S. stocks are coasting toward the close of a brutal week after a nervously anticipated economic report came in close to expectations. The S&P 500 was virtually unchanged in morning trading following a punishing stretch where it swung at least 1%,