US stock futures rose after another brutal day of trading on Wall Street ended with the S&P 500 closing in correction territory.

It’s been a terrible February for the stock market. The only crumb of comfort for investors is that it’s a short month and Friday is its final trading day. U.S. stock futures were pointing higher but

The widely followed stock index closed more than 10 percent down from last month’s record high as Trump threatened to escalate a trade war with Europe.

Wall Street ended sharply lower on Thursday and the S&P 500 confirmed it is in a correction after cool inflation data was overshadowed by fears that the escalating tariff war being waged by the United States against some of its biggest trading partners could reignite inflation and tip the economy into recession.

The S&P 500 index sunk into correction territory Thursday, falling 10 percent in less than a month from a record high. The S&P was down 1.4 percent shortly before 1:30 EST, falling to just more than 5,