U.S. stock-index futures on Wednesday see lackluster early action in thin trade as investors braced for an update on private-sector employment from ADP for April and react to corporate quarterly updates from some of the nation’s largest companies which are mostly swooning from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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