“The economic reports continue to show a mixture of decelerating and accelerating trends,” said Thomas Martin, senior portfolio manager at GLOBALT in Atlanta. “It’s tough to know how much good news is good news, and vice versa, when it comes to what the Fed has to do.”
European stocks closed higher, boosted by a raft of upbeat earnings, particularly from Deutsche Bank and Barclays.
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