Major U.S. stock-market benchmarks appeared set to rise Thursday, after the latest weekly jobless-claims report came in just slightly higher than forecast.
The E-Mini Dow Continuous Contract was up 0.4%, while the E-Mini S&P 500 Future Continuous Contract was up 0.2% and the E-Mini Nasdaq 100 Index Continuous Contract was edging up less than 0.1%, according to FactSet data, at last check.
Initial jobless claims in the U.S. edged up 2,000 to 206,000 during the week ending Aug. 29, according to a report Thursday by the Department of Labor, which was released at 8:30 a.m. Eastern time. That was similar to the forecast of a total of 205,000 from economists polled by the Wall Street Journal.