Futures Edge Toward S&P 500 Record
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Futures Edge Toward S&P 500 Record

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 6, 20261 min
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  • Business & money

Plus: Student protests in France call for more government spending, just as France’s ballooning budget roils markets. And Saudi Arabia dials up its attacks on Houthi rebels in a bid to dislodge the fighters from a strategic port. Luke Vargas hosts. Sign up for WSJ’s free What’s News newsletter. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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U.S. stock futures are rising, putting a record for the S&P 500 into play today.

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Here is your morning brief for Tuesday, October 6. I'm Luke Vargas for The Wall Street Journal. U.S. stock futures are rising, putting a record for the S&P 500 into play today. The index ended Monday just shy of its all-time closing high.

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The NASDAQ set its own new record yesterday, and futures are pointing to fresh gains for the tech-heavy index as well. are riding another wave of AI enthusiasm, and Treasury yields are finally taking a breather after having risen in tandem with stocks in recent weeks.

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Students in France are staging a nationwide day of action today. Hundreds have been injured, and around 400 schools have had to shut since protests first erupted in mid-September, with teachers, students, and now parents mobilizing against a lack of staff in high schools, perceived inequalities in the school system, and the

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