Pre-opening Comments for       Tuesday July 9th U.S. equity index futures were higher this morning. S&P 500 futures were up 9 points at 8:30 AM EDT. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell is slated to testify before a Congressional Committee at 11:00 AM EDT on state of the economy. Helen of Troy dropped $25.01 to $64.00 […]

Pre-opening Comments for Monday July 8th U.S. equity index futures were higher this morning. S&P 500 futures were up 3 points at 8:30 AM EDT Morphic Holding advanced $24.57 to $56.41 after Eli Lilly agreed to purchase the company at $57.00 per share. Value of the offer is $3.2 billion. Paramount Global added $0.28 to […]

Pre-opening Comments for Friday July 5th U.S. equity index futures were mixed this morning. S&P 500 futures were up 6 points at 8:35 AM EDT. S&P 500 futures added 4 points following release of the June U.S. Non-farm Payrolls report at 8:30 AM EDT. Consensus was a drop to 189,000 from 272,000 in May. Actual […]

Pre-opening Comments for Wednesday July 3rd Next Tech Talk report is released on Friday. U.S. equity markets are closed tomorrow. Trading activity in Canadian equity markets are expected to be low. U.S. equity index futures were lower this morning. S&P 500 futures were down 7 points at 8:30 AM EDT U.S. equity markets close today […]

Pre-opening Comments for Tuesday July 2nd U.S. equity index futures were lower this morning. S&P 500 futures were down 22 points at 8:30 AM EDT. Federal Chairman Jerome Powell is scheduled to speak at 9:30 AM EDT WTI Crude Oil added $0.72 to US$84.18 as Hurricane Beryl moves toward the Gulf of Mexico, an important […]