Wall Street mixed ahead of payrolls report, ASX set to inch up

Wall Street’s three main indexes slipped in choppy trading as a short-lived boost from a services activity survey fizzled out ahead of an upcoming employment report.

The S&P 500 was 0.1 per cent lower in late trade, the Dow Jones fell 0.5 per cent and the Nasdaq added 0.3 per cent. The…