Markets survive Thursday (Comey, Brexit, ECB) and analysts unleash flood of upgrades

Markets survive Thursday (Comey, Brexit, ECB) and analysts unleash flood of upgrades

Financial markets today shrugged off testimony from fired FBI director James Comey, a stunning election rebuke of Prime Minister Theresa May in UK elections, and a lack of news from the European Central Bank yesterday. The Standard & Poor’s 500 stock index is up 0.14% as of 12:30 p.m. New York time today. The only exception to the calm is the pound, which has tumbled almost 2% against the dollar