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Our Top Stories, Jobs, Twitter, and Spirit, and later, Costco and GameStop. Stocks climbed on Thursday adding to Gaines posted the previous day with the NASDAQ rising more than 2%.

Ahead of the opening bell today, Dow, S&P, and NASDAQ features are up, all less than 0.1%.

In our day watch, Helen of Troy dropped following the release of his quarterly results, sliding almost 9%.

The company provided a disappointing forecast.

H-E-L-E-Beat expectations with its Q-1 results, but issued a week forecast for the rest of the year.

Blaming a significant shift in the macroeconomic outlook, the company predicted a full year

revenue of 2.15 to 2.2 billion dollars. Analysts were looking for a total of about 2.4 billion.

Dragged down by the guidance, the stock retreated $15.14 to close at $154.75. The stock has fallen about 37% in 2022.

Baidu, Alibaba, and JD.com jumped on Thursday as Bloomberg reported that China is

considering letting local government sell up to $220 billion in bonds aimed at

infrastructure spending to boost the economy.

The news outlets citing people familiar with the discussions

noted that this would be the first time bonds are sold before the start of the year.

Additionally, the $220 billion in sales would come from next

year's quota. The country has also said that it would maintain its efforts to

boost car sales. Now our top stories. Today economists and investors will be looking at the

Department of Labor's view of how much hiring took place in June. Federal

reserve policy makers will also be considering what the amount of jobs created

last month says about the temperature of the economy.

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