(Reuters) – U.S. stock index futures jumped on Thursday after data showed domestic economy grew at an unrivaled pace in the third quarter as the government poured out more than $3 trillion worth of pandemic relief.
A separate set of data showed weekly unemployment claims fell compared with a week earlier.
At 8:41 a.m. ET, Dow e-minis <1YMcv1> were down 7 points, or 0.03%, S&P 500 e-minis <EScv1> were up 5.75 points, or 0.18%, and Nasdaq 100 e-minis <NQcv1> were up 66 points, or 0.59%.
(Reporting by Sruthi Shankar in Bengaluru; Editing by Anil D’Silva)
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