U.S. shares have been combined at Thursday’s open as buyers barreled by one other slew of earnings and mulled financial knowledge that confirmed an increase in weekly jobless claims.
The S&P 500 slipped 0.2%, whereas the Dow Jones Industrial Common edged down 0.3%. The tech-heavy Nasdaq was an outlier, up roughly 0.2%.
First-time filings for unemployment insurance coverage within the U.S. climbed to 260,000 for the week ended July 30, rising by 6,000 from the prior week’s studying, the Division of Labor mentioned Thursday….