Wall Street ends little changed ahead of jobs report

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks gave up big early gains on Thursday as consumer discretionary shares fell and investors showed caution ahead of the April jobs report.

The Dow Jones industrial average <.DJI> rose 9.45 points, or 0.05 percent, to 17,660.71, the S&P 500 <.SPX> lost 0.51 points, or 0.02 percent, to 2,050.61 and the Nasdaq Composite <.IXIC> dropped 8.55 points, or 0.18 percent, to 4,717.09.

(Reporting by Caroline Valetkevitch in New York; Editing by Nick Zieminski)