Wall Street was headed for more gains before the open on Wednesday as markets took in the some of the last earnings reports of the period while waiting for Friday’s U.S. jobs report

In the bond market, Treasury yields held relatively steady after a report showed U.S. employers were advertising slightly more job openings at the end of October than a month earlier. Continued strength there would raise optimism that the economy could remain out of a recession that many investors had earlier worried was inevitable.