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Dow Jones futures rose Friday ahead of the jobs report and Fed Chair Powell's speech. Nvidia partner Hewlett Packard Enterprise crashed on earnings.

Benchmark indices on Wall Street are headed into the new trading week after reporting their worst weekly performance since September last year.

Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B) is hovering around an all-time despite last week's sell-off in the major indexes. At the time of this writing, Berkshire's market cap is $1.11 trillion,

The Dow may be having its worst week in two years -- down 3.6% this week -- but it's out-doing the other benchmark indexes in one key way: It's still above its 200-day moving average, while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite are below theirs.

Uncertainty over President Donald Trump’s tariffs rattled Wall Street on Thursday, sending the Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbling by more than 400 points, or 1%.

Shares of Freshpet, which closed the regular session with a 6.3% gain, continued to rise in the after-hours session Friday following news the pet food company will be joining the S&P SmallCap 600. Freshpet shares finished the regular session at $96.86. After the bell, shares were up 5%, at $101.80.

The two highest-yielding Dogs of the Dow can be a safe haven as the stock market goes through a significant consolidation period this year.

It had dropped in five of the prior six days after weaker-than-expected reports on the economy and worries about President Donald Trump’s tariffs knocked the index off its all-time high set last week.