Futures Point To Positive Open For Wall Street
BRUSSELS/FRANKFURT/PARIS (dpa-AFX) - Economic announcements, especially weekly Jobless Claims, shall be the focus on Thursday. Earnings reports also might get special attention.
Asian shares finished mostly higher, while European shares are trading broadly lower.
Initial signs from the U.S. Futures Index suggest that Wall Street might open positive.
As of 7.50 am ET, the Dow futures were adding 42.00 points, the S&P 500 futures were up 3.50 points and the Nasdaq 100 futures were gaining 20.75 points.
The U.S. major averages finished Wednesday on opposite sides of the unchanged line. The Nasdaq fell 51.08 points or 0.4 percent to 13,582.43, the Dow rose 97.31 points or 0.3 percent to 34,230.34 and the S&P 500 inched up 2.93 points or 0.1 percent to 4,167.59.
Wednesday, May 5, 2021
SHOCK NUMBERS: Many Small Businesses in the Services Sector Are Unlikely to Reopen
We are getting the first hard number indications of how damaging the lockdowns have been to small service businesses.
According to a New York Federal Reserve Bank study, 35 percent of businesses that were active prior to the pandemic are still closed and that most have been inactive for twenty weeks or longer. Researchers at the bank estimate that each additional week of being closed reduces the probability that a business reopens by 2 percentage points. Moreover, an additional week of business closure lowers the share of workers that are rehired at reopening. The bank estimates imply that only about 4 percent of the workers that are still laid off from the currently closed businesses will eventually be rehired by these businesses.
Inflation not a worry: US Fed official
GROWTH BOOM: New York Federal Reserve Bank President John Williams said that the world’s largest economy still needs to see several months of strong job growth
AFP, WASHINGTON
The US economy this year is likely to see its fastest growth in nearly four decades, but the short-term inflation spike that is to accompany the rebound is not a cause for concern, a top US Federal Reserve official said on Monday.
The world’s largest economy still needs to see several months of strong employment growth to achieve a full recovery, New York Federal Reserve Bank President John Williams said, stressing that the central bank would be in no hurry to alter its stimulative policies.
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When President Biden rolled out his budget request for the 2022 fiscal year, conservatives weren t surprised that it included a laundry list of leftist malarkey. But beyond the tax and spend priorities lie a fundamental betrayal of the claimed commitment to equity espoused by the Biden Administration especially in his budget request for the U.S. Department of Education.
For anyone who s recently graduated or follows the troubling stories coming out of America s institutions of higher learning, it s clear that more money isn t the solution. The cost to attend college and the resulting student loan debt continue to skyrocket despite years of funding increases and federal help that can t save students with unmarketable degrees.
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Like other Black entrepreneurs in her Inglewood neighborhood, Annie Graham has struggled to keep her business afloat during the pandemic.
At Ms. Ann’s clothing boutique on Manchester Boulevard, the Easter finery Graham stocked last spring remains on the racks. Also untouched are many of the exclusively white outfits for weddings and parties that she sells at her storefront next door, the White House. Customers, she said, mostly buy dresses now for funerals.
Annie Graham, owner of Ms. Ann’s dress shop in Inglewood, had her application last year for a PPP loan rejected.
(James Bernal for Reveal / Los Angeles Times)