Pre-opening Comments for Tuesday February 3rd U.S. equity index futures were higher this morning. S&P 500 futures were up 17 points at 8:30 AM EST. Palantir (PLTR) added $10.64 to $158.40 after reporting higher than consensus fourth quarter results. Teradyne (TER) advanced $46.47 to $296.00 after reporting higher than consensus fourth quarter results. PayPal (PYPL) […]

Pre-opening Comments for Monday February 2nd U.S. equity index futures were lower this morning. S&P 500 futures were down 32 points to 6,933.25 at 8:30 AM EST. Gold dropped another $110.02 to $4,783.18 per ounce. Silver dropped another $1.51 to $83.83 per ounce. Walt Disney added $1.66 to $114.46 after announcing record theme park revenues […]

Pre-opening Comments for Friday January 30th U.S. equity index futures were lower this morning. S&P 500 futures were down 37 points at 8:35 AM EST. S&P 500 futures were unchanged following release of the December Producer Price Index at 8:30 AM EST. Consensus was a 0.3% increase versus a 0.2% increase in November. Actual was […]

Pre-opening Comments for Thursday January 29th U.S. equity index futures were higher this morning. S&P 500 futures were up 15 points at 8:35 AM EST. S&P 500 futures added 2 points following release of the U.S. November Trader report released at 8:30 AM EST. Consensus was a $42.9 billion deficit versus a $29.4 billion deficit […]

Pre-opening Comments for Wednesday January 28th U.S. equity index futures were higher this morning. S&P 500 futures were up 12 points at 8:30 AM EST. U.S. focus today is on news from the FOMC meeting released at 2:00 PM EST. Consensus calls for no change in the Fed Fund Rate currently at 3.50%-3.75%. Federal Reserve […]