Dow Jones futures rose Thursday ahead of weekly initial unemployment claims. Nvidia stock and Tesla dropped in morning trade.

The U.S. jobs market has a “slow leak,” as reflected in the latest weekly data on initial jobless claims, according to Renaissance Macro Research. “The slow leaking higher of unemployment continues,” ...

Stocks took a leg up after Trump said Thursday in a virtual address to the World Economic Forum that he would “demand that interest rates drop immediately.” ...

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