S&P Index Futures advanced to 5,160, bolstered by a drop in weekly jobless claims to the lowest level since March. This could reinforce confidence in U.S. economic resilience despite mixed manufacturing output data. A warning and 9 advisories in effect for 4 regions in the area Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Secretary of Health and Human Services: In the past, the response to epidemics of this kind of has been to pump a lot of money into ivory tower science to try to solve the problem. We've already put $1.5 billion into NIH to solve Long COVID, and we've got literally nothing from it. Earnings beats from mid-cap industrial firms are fueling sentiment that an earnings recession has been avoided for now.
