Pre-opening Comments for Tuesday January 28th U.S. equity index futures were higher this morning. S&P 500 futures were up 9 points at 8:35 AM EST. S&P 500 futures dropped 6 points following release of December Durable Goods Orders at 8:30 AM EST. Consensus called for a 0.1% increase versus a 1.2% decline in November. Actual […]

Pre-opening Comments for Monday January 27th U.S. equity index futures were sharply lower this morning. S&P 500 futures dropped 120 points at 8:30 AM EST. Leading the weakness were Artificial Intelligence stocks on concern that China’s DeepSeek has developed a lower cost technology. Nvidia plunged $17.06 to $125.75. Microsoft dropped $26.55 to $417.51 AT&T added […]

Pre-opening Comments for Friday January 24th U.S. equity index futures were lower this morning. S&P 500 futures were down 8 points at 8:30 AM EST. Boeing dropped $4.50 to $174.00 after the company pre-reported a large fourth quarter write down Texas Instruments dropped $7.61 to $193.00 after issuing a first quarter earnings forecast below consensus. […]

Pre-opening Comments for Thursday January 23rd U.S. equity index futures were lower this morning. S&P 500 futures were down 8 points at 8:35 AM EST. The Canadian Dollar was unchanged at US69.42 cents following release of Canada’s November Retail Sales report at 8:30 AM EST. Consensus was a 0.2% gain versus unchanged in October. Actual […]

Pre-opening Comments for Wednesday January 22nd U.S. equity index futures were higher this morning. S&P 500 futures were up 32 points at 8:30 AM EST. Netflix advanced $123.29 to an all-time high at $992.97 after reporting a higher than consensus increase in subscriptions. United Airlines added $4.18 to an all-time high at $114.70 after reporting […]