Wednesday, 05 Aug 2020 06:55 PM MYT
NEW YORK, Aug 5 — US stock futures rose today after Disney squeezed out a quarterly profit despite taking a US$5 billion charge due to the pandemic, while investors awaited data on private payrolls and the service sector to gauge the country’s economic health. Better-than-expected corporate results and a surge in shares of heavyweight technology companies have fueled a stimulus-driven rally in Wall Street’s main indexes and brought the S&P 500 within 2.5 per cent of its record high hit in February.
White House negotiators yesterday vowed to work “around the clock” with congressional Democrats to try to reach a deal on coronavirus relief package by the end of this week.
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