NEW YORK – Amazon led U.S. stock indexes higher on Friday, while a surprisingly weak jobs report marred by some unusual events cemented bets on Wall Street for another interest rate cut next week.

The S&P 500 rose 0.4 percent to recoup some of its losses the day before, which was its worst in eight weeks. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 288 points, or 0.7 percent, while the Nasdaq composite gained 0.8 percent.

Amazon climbed 6.2 percent after posting a bigger-than-expected quarterly profit and was the strongest force pushing the S&P 500 higher.

Meanwhile, Intel rose 7.8% despite reporting a worse-than-expected loss. Its revenue beat analysts’ estimates and it provided a forecast for current-quarter results that also beat expectations. Cardinal Health was one of the market’s biggest gainers, rising 7% after beating analysts’ forecasts for profit and revenue in the latest quarter. It also raised its profit forecast for the fiscal year, which is only in its second quarter.

Those helped offset a 1.2 percent decline for Apple, which said it expected revenue growth in the key holiday quarter to be in the low to mid-single digits. It was below the forecasts of several analysts.

Overall, the S&P 500 rose 23.35 points to 5,728.80. The Dow gained 288.73 to 42,052.19 and the Nasdaq composite added 144.77 to 18,239.92.

In the bond market, Treasury yields edged higher amid some changes after a much-anticipated report said U.S. employers added just 12,000 net workers to their payrolls last month. That was well below the 115,000 jobs economists had expected, or the 223,000 jobs created by employers in September.

The near-unanimous expectation on Wall Street remains that the Federal Reserve will cut its key interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point next week. But the weaker-than-expected jobs report wiped out the slim chance traders saw that the Fed would keep rates steady, according to CME Group data.

The Fed kicked off its rate-cutting campaign in September with a larger-than-usual cut of half a percentage point as it turns more attention to keeping the labor market strong rather than focusing solely on reducing inflation.

The two-year Treasury yield, which closely tracks expectations for Fed actions, initially fell following the jobs report, but then rose to 4.20 percent from 4.18 percent late Thursday.

The 10-year Treasury yield, which also takes into account future economic growth and other factors, also rose after a sharp decline. It rose to 4.37 percent, up from 4.29 percent late Thursday.

Economists said Friday’s jobs report contained a lot of noise and perhaps not much of a signal. In addition to two hurricanes that left destructive roads in the United States during the month, a strike by Boeing workers also contributed to the lower numbers.

All these distortions make the numbers difficult to analyze, “but they do not change our view that the labor market should decelerate further in the coming months,” said Scott Wren, chief global market strategist at Wells Fargo Investment Institute.

The hope on Wall Street is that the economy will still avoid a recession, even with that expected slowdown in the labor market, thanks in part to future interest rate cuts by the Fed. The overall economy has so far remained more resilient than feared.

A separate report on Friday said U.S. manufacturing fell more than economists expected last month. It was one of the areas of the economy hardest hit by the Fed holding interest rates at a two-decade high until September.

In overseas stock markets, indexes rose in much of Europe after finishing lower in much of Asia outside Hong Kong.

Meanwhile, the price of oil rose again to further pare its losses this week. A barrel of benchmark US crude rose 0.4%. Brent crude, the international benchmark, also rose 0.4%.

Choe writes for the Associated Press.