- Wednesday's stock market performance was mixed as investors considered company profits and the concerns of inflationary pressures. The dollar and government yields were hardly altered.

- Chinese technology firms listed in the United States, as well as Hong Kong peers such as Alibaba, rose in pre-market trade in hopes that the worst of Beijing's regulatory crackdown had passed. Tesla will be in the spotlight on the busiest day of the earnings season thus far. After the S&P 500 finished near a record, index futures were little changed.

- Meanwhile, progress on Biden's economic agenda appeared to be getting closer as Senate Democrats made strides in breaking a stalemate on the multitrillion-dollar tax and spending bill.

- Iraq's Oil Minister Jabbar: OPEC+ is now talking about ways to produce well-balanced oil rates, no decision yet to include more production above the agreed levels.

- ECB's Weidmann posted his resignation from Bundesbank as president. He will be leaving by the year-end citing personal reasons.