U.S. stock futures point slightly higher Wednesday morning as investors watched for a cavalcade of economic reports, including a weekly reading on jobless benefit claims which are being published a day early due to the shortened holiday trade on Thursday and market closure on Friday in observance of Christmas.
Wall Street is looking forward to happy holidays and a farewell to a pandemic-stricken 2020 and an embrace of a new year, with the last two weeks in December representing abbreviated sessions.
President Donald Trump lashed out at Sen. John Thune on Tuesday, a day after the No. 2 Republican in the Senate said a longshot bid to block Joe Biden from becoming president “would go down like a shot dog” in the Senate.