Pre-opening Comments for Tuesday August 29th U.S. equity index futures were lower this morning. S&P 500 futures were down 8 points at 8:30 AM EDT. Big Lots jumped $1.04 to $7.32 after reporting a narrower than expected second quarter loss. JM Smucker advanced $3.65 to $146.54 after reporting higher than consensus fiscal first quarter earnings. […]

Pre-opening Comments for Monday August 28th U.S. equity index futures were higher this morning. S&P 500 futures were up 18 points at 8:30 AM EDT. Horizon Therapeutics added $5.38 to $112.05 after the Federal Trade Commission halted its challenge of Amgen to take over the company. MMM gained $5.05 to 104.00 on news that the […]

Pre-opening Comments for Friday August 25th U.S. equity index futures were higher this morning. S&P 500 futures were up 17 points at 8:30 AM EDT. Investors are waiting for a statement on FOMC interest rate expectations to be presented today by Federal Reserve Chairman Powell at the Jackson Hole symposium. Affirm added $0.97 to $14.80 […]

Pre-opening Comments for Thursday August 24th U.S. equity index futures were higher this morning. S&P 500 futures were up 18 points at 8:35 AM EDT U.S. equity indices were unchanged following release of the July Durable Goods Orders report at 8:30 AM EDT. Consensus was a drop of 4.0% from June versus a gain of […]

Pre-opening Comments for Wednesday August 23rd U.S. equity index futures were higher this morning. S&P 500 futures were up 3 points at 8:30 AM EDT The Canadian Dollar was unchanged at US73.60 cents following release of Canada’s June Retail Sales at 8:30 AM EDT. Consensus was unchanged from May. Actual was an increase of 0.1%. […]