Pre-opening Comments for Wednesday August 17th U.S. equity index futures were lower this morning. S&P 500 futures were down 37 points in pre-opening trade. Index futures were virtually unchanged following release of the U.S. July Retail Sales report at 8:30 AM EDT. Consensus was an increase of 0.1% versus a gain of 1.0% in June. […]

Pre-opening Comments for Tuesday August 16th U.S. equity index futures were lower this morning. S&P 500 futures were down 4 points in pre-opening trade. Index futures were virtually unchanged following release of the July U.S. Housing Start report at 8:30 AM EDT. Consensus was a decline of 2.5% from June. Actual was drop of 9.6%. […]

Pre-opening Comments for Monday August 15th U.S. equity index futures were lower this morning. S&P 500 futures were down 22 points in pre-opening trade. The Canadian Dollar dropped $0.80 to US 77.43 cents following overnight strength in the U.S Dollar Energy equity prices are expected to open lower after the price of crude oil dropped […]

Pre-opening Comments for Friday August 12th U.S. equity index futures were higher this morning. S&P 500 futures were up 21 points in pre-opening trade. Illumina dropped $44.45 to $182.99 after reporting lower than consensus second quarter earnings. The company also lowered guidance. Blackrock added $1.95 to $730.60 after Deutsche Bank raised its target price from […]

Pre-opening Comments for Thursday August 11th U.S equity index futures were higher this morning. S&P 500 futures were up 22 points in pre-opening trade. U.S. equity index futures were virtually unchanged following release of the July U.S. Producer Price Index at 8:30 AM EDT. Consensus was an increase of 0.2% versus a gain of 1.1% […]