Author: Dow Futures

PREMARKET WORLD NEWS Mar E-mini S&Ps are up +0.12% as energy producing stocks climb with Jan WTI crude oil up +0.21%. Crude oil rose after Libyan oil-facility guards prevented two of the country’s biggest oil fields from resuming production. European stocks are down -0.09%, led by losses in mining stocks, as the price of Mar Read More

PREMARKET WORLD NEWS Mar E-mini S&Ps (ESH17 +0.20%) are up +0.14% and European stocks are up +0.54% at an 11-1/2 month high. M&A activity is boosting European stocks with Actelion up over 8% after people with knowledge of the matter said Sanofi is in talks to acquire the company. According to Bank of America’s Merrill Read More

PREMARKET WORLD NEWS Mar E-mini S&Ps (ESH17 -0.08%) are up +0.04% and European stocks are up +0.98% at an 11-1/4 month high. Gains in U.S. equities were muted as the 10-year T-note yield jumped to a 2-year high of 2.63% as the Fed yesterday signaled a faster pace of rate hikes next year. As expected, Read More

PREMARKET WORLD NEWS Mar E-mini S&Ps (ESH17 +0.01%) are little changed, down -0.01%, and European stocks are down -0.50% ahead of the results of today’s FOMC meeting where the Fed is expected to raise its fed funds target range by 25 bp. Another negative for stocks is weakness in energy producing companies with Jan WTI Read More

PREMARKET WORLD NEWS Mar E-mini S&Ps (ESH17 +0.37%) are up +0.28% and European stocks are up +0.89% at an 11-1/4 month high. A rally in Italian bank stocks is leading European equities higher after UniCredit SpA, Italy’s biggest bank, climbed over 7% when it said it plans to raise 13 billion-euros ($ 13.8 billion) in Read More

PREMARKET WORLD NEWS Mar E-mini S&Ps (ESH17 +0.01%) are little changed, down -0.02%, as they fell back from a contract high in overnight trade. European stocks are up +0.08% at a 11-1/4 month high. A +4.19% surge in Jan WTI crude oil (CLF17 +4.39%) to a 17-month high lifted energy producing stocks and pushed global Read More

PREMARKET WORLD NEWS Dec E-mini S&Ps (ESZ16 +0.03%) are up +0.03% as the market consolidates following Thursday’s rally to an all-time high. European stocks are up +0.31% at an 11-month high on positive carry-over from the ECB’s decision Thursday to extend QEE until the end of next year. European equities also received a boost after Read More

PREMARKET WORLD NEWS Dec E-mini S&Ps (ESZ16 +0.10%) are up +0.02% and European stocks are up +0.30% at an 11-month high as the markets expect the ECB later today to announce an extension of its QE program. Government bond prices fell and EUR/USD (^EURUSD) rose to a 3-week high on speculation the ECB may also Read More

PREMARKET WORLD NEWS Dec E-mini S&Ps (ESZ16 +0.01%) are up +0.02% and European stocks are up +1.01% at a 7-1/4 month high on optimism the ECB will prolong QE. Expectations are for the ECB at its monthly meeting tomorrow to extend its monthly asset purchases of 80 billion euros by 6 to 9 months. Also, Read More

PREMARKET WORLD NEWS Dec E-mini S&Ps (ESZ16 +0.03%) are little changed, up +0.05%, as a -0.85% decline in Jan WTI crude oil (CLF17 -1.08%) weighs on energy producing stocks. Crude oil is under pressure on concern over whether OPEC will be able to adhere to its recently announced production cuts. European stocks are up +0.70% Read More