Wall Street stocks were a mixed bag Thursday morning as a U.S. government shutdown postponed key economic data, the Associated Press reports.
Thursday’s regular report on applications for unemployment benefits was postponed, as was the jobs report scheduled to come out Friday.
Futures for the S&P 500 and Nasdaq were up 0.2% and 0.5%, respectively, while Dow Jones Industrial Average futures were down 0.1%.
Broadcom rose 1.9%, and Advanced Micro Devices climbed 3.4%.
Fair Isaac Corp. jumped 19% after the developers of the FICO credit score system announced a program that will allow mortgage lenders to access and distribute FICO scores directly to their customers.
Warren Buffett ‘s Berkshire Hathaway announced that it had acquired Occidental Petroleum’s chemical division for $9.7 billion.
Berkshire’s Class B shares were unchanged on the news, which had been rumored earlier, while Occidental shares rose 1.6%.
U.S. benchmark crude oil lost 41 cents to $61.37 per barrel. Brent crude, the international standard, shed 44 cents to $64.91 per barrel.
