Required Reading

Required Reading

Republicans press FBI chief over lack of consequence for Clinton PepsiCo profit beats expectations on North American demand; stock rises University of Texas professors sue to block guns in classrooms IMF’s Lagarde warns against Trump-style protectionism: FT Syrian army fire cuts only road into rebel-held Aleppo Boeing slows payments to suppliers as it accelerates cost…

The Closing Look
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The Closing Look

Stocks opened higher but closed mixed to lower on Thursday as investors waited for Friday’s always fun jobs report. Before the open, ADP, the country’s largest private payrolls company, said U.S. employers added  172,000 new jobs in June, beating estimates for 150,000. A separate report showed that weekly jobless claims slid by 16,000 to 254,000 last…