Stock market news live updates: January 6, 2022

U.S. stock futures zigzagged ahead of the open Friday as key government employment data kept investors on edge. The Labor Department will publish its jobs report for December at 8:30 a.m. ET. Economists expect a payroll gain of 200,000 jobs last month, per Bloomberg consensus estimates, while unemployment likely stayed at 3.7%. Futures tied to the S&P 500 (^GSPC) were just below the flatline, while futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) rose a modest 0.1%. Contracts on the technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) were off by 0.2%. In specific stock moves, beleaguered Tesla (TSLA) shares resumed a downslide, falling…