US equities mostly lower in Thursday trading, though just off best levels as markets rebounded from fairly morning decline. The S&P broke a four-day streak of declines, though the Nasdaq posted a fifth consecutive daily decline. A bit of a risk off tone to start the seasonally weak month of September as a batch of better economic data played into good-news-is bad-news narrative. August ISM manufacturing index beat with new orders, employment indexes returning to expansion territory, prices index lowest since Jun-20.