Nathan Hager

Manufacturing surged the most in four years last month during the war.

So did prices paid by factories.

That's according to the Institute for Supply Management's latest index.

Bloomberg's Michael McKee has more on what the factories are saying in the survey.

Mike McKee reporting.

The prospect of an early end to the U.S.

war, though, has stocks surging right now.

The S&P 500 is up 1%.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average is higher by 9 tenths of 1%.

The Nasdaq Composite is leading the gains up 1.5%.

Ten-year Treasury yield is down two basis points to 4.29%.

And Brent Crude is on the decline, down 2.25%, trading below $102 a barrel.

We're just hours away from NASA's first moonshot in more than a half century.

Bloomberg's Ed Ludlow is at the Kennedy Space Center for the launch of Artemis II.

Bloomberg's Ed Ludlow reporting from Cape Canaveral ahead of that launch window opening tonight at 6.24 Eastern Time.

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