Market highlights - 1 March 💡💡💡
@Shyon:
Wall Street closes at record high in February 🇺🇸 S&P 500: 0.54% 📈 🇺🇸 Nasdaq: 0.92% 📈 🇪🇺 Stoxx 600: 0.02% 📈 🇯🇵 Nikkei 225 Index: -0.11%📉 🇭🇰 Hang Seng: -0.15%📉 🇨🇳 CSI 300: 1.91%📈• U.S. stocks continued to rise, with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq both up 0.5% and 0.9%, as investors digested a positive U.S. core PCE index that ended February in line with market expectations. • Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index fell -0.2%, while China's CSI 300 rose 1.9%, as investors awaited U.S. core PCE data on Thursday night and China's Caixin Manufacturing PMI data on Friday. • Initial claims for unemployment benefits fell 20,000 to 201,000 in the week ended Sept. 16, near the lowest level in more than 50 years, according to Labor Department data released Thursday. • The cost of the US core personal consu