Daily Three: The United States Falls To 19th In Social Progress, Weekly Jobless Claims Rise 10,000 and Chicago PMI Suggests Strong Manufacturing Pickup
- The U.S. falls three places on the Social Progress Index being recently down placed by Belgium, Spain and France. The Wall Street Journal.
- U.S. weekly jobless claims rose to 268,000 against the expected 267,000 but remain below the threshold of a stressed labor market. CNBC
- Chicago PMI rises 7.5 points in June to 56.8 a surge from a month earlier. MarketWatch