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Futures down: S&P 500 1.24%, Nasdaq 100 1.22%, Dow 1.41%

April 4 (Reuters) - U.S. stock futures fell sharply on

Friday, signaling more losses on Wall Street, after China

retaliated with fresh tariffs a day after the Trump

administration's sweeping levies knocked off $2.4 trillion from

U.S. equities.

China's finance ministry said it will impose additional

tariffs of 34% on all U.S. goods from April 10 as a

countermeasure to the tariffs imposed by U.S. President Donald

Trump.

The benchmark S&P 500 dropped 4.8% on Thursday, its

largest one-day percentage decline since June 2020, after Trump

imposed a 10% tariff on most imports into the United States and

much higher levies on dozens of other countries.

The index closed at 5,396.52 points, a more than seven-month

low.

"We see 5,300 as the near-term target for the S&P 500, but

if tariff uncertainty persists or negotiations with trading

partners don't go well, risks of downside through 5,000 become

real," strategists at UBS Global Research noted.

"The probability of U.S. stocks entering bear market is

going higher."

The tariffs have fed expectations for a global economic

downturn and sharp price hikes across sectors in the world's

biggest consumer market.

The tech-heavy Nasdaq tumbled about 6% on Thursday,

its biggest one-day drop since the height of the pandemic-fueled

selloff in March 2020. The blue-chip Dow dropped 2.5% in

the prior session and the index looked on course to confirm a

correction, or a 10% drop from all-time highs.

By 6:12 a.m. ET, S&P 500 e-minis were down 67.5

points, or 1.24%. Nasdaq 100 E-minis fell 228 points, or

1.22% and Dow e-minis dropped 576 points, or 1.41%.

Bank stocks in the United States dropped further on Friday,

with the sector under pressure globally as investors anticipated

more interest rate cuts from central banks and a hit to economic

growth from tariffs.

Bank of America ( BAC ), JPMorgan Chase ( JPM ) and

Citigroup ( C/PN ) all fell around 2% in premarket trading. The

yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury notes was

down to a six-month low of 3.95%.

The Labor Department report at 8:30 a.m. ET is expected to

show U.S. job growth slowed in March amid mass firings of public

sector workers to slash federal government spending and

reluctance by businesses to increase hiring because of import

tariffs.

Nonfarm payrolls likely rose by 135,000 jobs in March after

rising 151,000 in the prior month.

Focus will also be on Fed Chair Jerome Powell's speech at

11:25 a.m. ET for clues on the path of interest rates.

Traders continued to anticipate a more accommodative policy

from the U.S. central bank, with money market futures pricing in

cumulative rate cuts of 100 basis points by the end of this

year, compared with about 75 bps a week earlier.