MELBOURNE, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Oil prices dipped on Friday after posting strong overnight gains on a weaker dollar and a bigger-than-expected fall in U.S. crude stocks and were headed for small gains on the week ahead of a highly anticipated U.S. monthly jobs report.

BEIJING, Sept 1 (Reuters) - Chinese electric vehicle (EV) maker Nio Inc (NIO.N) on Wednesday cut its delivery forecast for the third quarter this year due to uncertain and volatile semiconductor supplies.

SYDNEY, Sept 2 (Reuters) - Asian share markets were in a cautious mood on Thursday as concerns grew over the Chinese economy after a run of soft data, while the risk of a sub par U.S. payrolls report kept the dollar on the defensive.

WASHINGTON, Sept 1(Reuters) - U.S. manufacturing activity unexpectedly picked up in August amid strong order growth, but a measure of factory employment dropped to a nine-month low, likely as workers remained scarce.

SINGAPORE, Sept 2 (Reuters) - The dollar loitered around multi-week lows on Thursday, pressured by softer-than-expected U.S. labour data as traders awaited a fuller jobs readout, which is expected to guide the timing of Federal Reserve's pullback in bond buying.

TOKYO, Sept 2 (Reuters) - Oil prices fell on Thursday after OPEC+ agreed to keep its policy of gradually returning supply to the market at a time when coronavirus cases around the world are surging and many U.S. refiners, a key source of crude demand, remained offline.