Q3 Earnings Season Begins On Positive Note

Pre-market earnings are flat-to-down at this hour, following another robust session Wednesday, led by an expanding AI trade and climbing gold values that have brought market indexes up double-digits from April lows. The Dow is -16 points, the S&P 500 +1 and the Nasdaq -4 points. The small-cap Russell 2000 is -2 points.There are no Weekly Jobless Claims numbers this Thursday, now for the second week in a row. When we last saw new jobless claims for the third week in September, they had fallen precipitously f ...