us stock futures on friday pointed to a stronger start as investors balanced concerns about the economy regional bank health and the debt ceiling with hopes for new technologies such as artificial intelligence on thursday the dow jones industrial average djia fell 222 points or 066 to 33310 the sp 500 spx declined 7 points or 017 to 4131 and the nasdaq composite comp gained 22 points or 018 to 12329 the 9 slide in dow component walt disney dis was a particular weight on the bluechip index also weighing on stocks on thursday was that regional banks continued to struggle with pacwest bancorp pacw reporting a big drop in deposits for the week ending may 5 data released after the close showed that increased usage of both the fed’s discount window and its new facility allowing banks to borrow against bonds that have fallen in value the market is also worried about the impending debtceiling limit as a meeting between president joe biden and top congressional leaders was delayed the outlook for friday which according to goldman sachs has been the bestperforming day of the week for the sp 500 this year looked stronger without much in the way of new economic data or earnings the university of michigan releases its consumer sentiment index after data on thursday showed rising weekly jobless claims and softer producer price inflation alphabet googl will be in the spotlight after a 4 stockprice gain on thursday with a similar gain on wednesday in what has been a busy week of airelated news for the google parent company according to societe generale the sp 500 would be down 2 this year instead of up 8 were it not for the aipopular stocks elon musk’s announcement that there will be a new chief executive for twitter in six weeks helped lift shares of one of his other companies tesla tsla  in premarket trade