U.S. stock futures rose on Thursday following Wednesday’s gains. Futures of major benchmark indices were higher.The indices settled higher on Wednesday, gaining more than 1% during the session after President Donald Trump abruptly withdrew his latest round of tariff threats. He stated that planned tariffs on European Union countries will no longer take effect following what he described as a “very productive” meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte. Meanwhile, the 10-year Treasury bond yielded 4.24%, ...

The first one is that the way the head was fired and she was fired just following data releases that the president liked that erodess institutional integrity and institutional integrity is very important in the US economy. The second focus is on the problems we having collecting and estimating data. These have been longstanding problems that have been getting worse.The reporting level has come down. the methodology used for estimating when you don't have the data is breaking down. So there are fundamental i ...