New York (CNN Business)US stock futures were mixed in after-hours trading on Wednesday following a Wall Street rally as investors’ hopes for a coronavirus recovery continue to grow.
Dow (INDU) futures were up 18 points, or about 0.1%. S&P 500 (SPX) futures were down 0.1% and Nasdaq (COMP) futures were down about 0.2%. Wall Street rallied Wednesday on rising optimism that the coronavirus spread in hot spot countries is slowing.
The Dow finished up 3.4%, or 780 points, closing above 23,000 points for the first time in nearly a month. The S&P 500 closed 3.4% higher. The Nasdaq ended the day up 2.6%.Johns Hopkins University changed the trending status for the United States to “down” on Wednesday, because of changes in the five-day moving average of new cases of the coronavirus. The data could change as more cases are reported.Read More
More than 419,000 people in the US have been infected with coronavirus, and more than 14,200 have died.- Anneken Tappe contributed to this report
Source: edition.cnn.com
