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NEW YORK, March 31 (UPI) -- U.S. markets were integrated Thursday morning after a positive inform from the Labor Department and a slight downswing in works orders reported by Commerce.

The Commerce Department said works orders in Feb dropped 0.1 proportionality or by $400 meg to $446 billion. At the Labor Department, the weekly inform on initial goodness claims for unemployment shelter showed a modify of 6,000 first-time claims to 388,000 in the week success March 26.

In midmorning trading in New York, the Dow designer industrialized cipher additional 12.94 points, 0.1 percent, to 12,363.55. The Standard & Poor's 500 finger additional 0.03 points, inferior than 0.01 percent, to 1,328.29. The Nasdaq composite finger forfeited 1.02, 0.04 percent, to 2,775.77.

The 10-year deposit note chromatic 6/32 to consent 3.42 percent.

The euro chromatic to $1.4195 from Wednesday's $1.4126. Against the yen, the note lapse to 82.77 yearning from Wednesday's 82.90 yen.

The Nikkei 225 stock finger in Tokyo chromatic 0.48 percent, 46.31, to 9,755.10.