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U.S. stock futures fell Thursday as shares in Meta pulled back following results and bond yields hovered near recent highs.
How are stock-index futures trading
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S&P 500 futures
ES00,
-0.61%
dipped 28 points, or 0.6%, to 4181 -
Dow Jones Industrial Average futures
YM00,
-0.32%
fell 109 points, or 0.3%, to 33041 -
Nasdaq 100 futures
NQ00,
-0.97%
dropped 139 points, or 1%, to 14339
On Wednesday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average
DJIA
fell 105 points, or 0.32%, to 33036, the S&P 500
SPX
declined 61 points, or 1.43%, to 4187, and the Nasdaq Composite
COMP
dropped 319 points, or 2.43%, to 12821.
What’s driving markets
Poorly received earnings from some big technology companies continued to weigh on markets in early trading Thursday.
The Nasdaq Composite in the previous session recorded its biggest daily drop since February, after shares of Alphabet
GOOG,
fell nearly 10% in reaction to its results.
This decline took the tech-heavy benchmark to a 10.7% loss since hitting a recent high in mid July. A double-digit retreat from a high is considered a market correction by technical analysts.
And the new day is in line to bring additional losses as shares of Meta Platforms
META,
shed nearly 4% in premarket action following its earnings presentation late Wednesday. Next up in big tech is Amazon.com
AMZN,
which will report after Thursday’s close.
“This morning risk-off has continued,” said analysts at Saxo Bank. “One driver seems to be the market recalibrating technology valuations amid rising real yields and that cycle could go on for a while.”
Indeed, early Thursday the 10-year Treasury yield
BX:TMUBMUSD10Y
rose again to within a few basis points of 5%, before falling back. The benchmark borrowing cost remains just shy of 16-year highs following signs the U.S. economy has so far shrugged off the Federal Reserve’s campaign of interest rate rises.
“Unfortunately for stocks, robust economic data comes at an unruly price, with the strong housing market likely contributing to a higher rate environment,” said Stephen Innes, managing partner at SPI Asset Management.
To this end, traders will be keeping a close eye on U.S. economic updates set for release on Thursday. These include third-quarter GDP, weekly initial jobless claims, and the September readings for durable goods orders, the trade balance in goods and wholesale and retail inventories, all at 8:30 a.m. Eastern. Pending home sales for September will be published at 10 a.m..
As Treasury yields rise, traders are moving into the U.S. dollar, pushing the buck decisively above 150 Japanese yen
USDJPY,
a 12-month high, and the dollar index
DXY
to an 11-month peak. A stronger dollar is often considered another headwind for U.S. corporations with significant foreign sales.
Other companies reporting earnings on Thursday include UPS
UPS,
Northrop Grumman
NOC,
and Merck
MRK,
before the opening bell rings on Wall Street, followed by Chipotle
CMG,
Intel
INTC,
and Ford Motor
F,
after the close.
The United Auto Workers separately said it reached an agreement to end the strike at Ford.
