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