U.S. stock index futures fell late Wednesday, following losses on Wall Street and ahead of a sure-to-be-ugly U.S. jobless-claims report due Thursday. Dow...
U.S. stock index futures fell late Wednesday, following losses on Wall Street and ahead of a sure-to-be-ugly U.S. jobless-claims report due Thursday. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures YM00, -0.70% slid 178 points, or 0.8%, as of 8:30 p.m. Eastern, while S&P 500 futures ES00, -0.72% and Nasdaq-100 futures NQ00, -0.72% were off about the same, percentage-wise.
Stocks ended lower Wednesday after disappointing earnings reports and dismal economic data. The Dow DJIA, -1.86% closed down 445 points. Investors are also bracing for the jobless-claims report in the morning, which is expected to show some 5 million new applications for the third week in a row, as coronavirus-related business closures have decimated the economy.
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