Pre-opening Comments for Monday August 5th World equity indices are down sharply this morning. S&P 500 dropped 153 to 5,184.56 NASDAQ Composite Index dropped 827 to 15,949.16. Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 824.90 to 39,055.00. Nikkei Average plunged 3,313.70 to 32,596.00. Shanghai Composite dropped 44.63 to 2,869.70. The London FTSE dropped 195 to 7,981.00 The […]

Pre-opening Comments for Friday August 2nd U.S. equity index futures were lower this morning. S&P 500 futures were down 98 points at 8:35 AM EDT. S&P 500 futures dropped 41 points following release of the U.S. July Employment Report at 8:30 AM EDT. Consensus for July Non-farm Payrolls was a drop to 185,000 from a […]

Pre-opening Comments for Thursday August 1st U.S. equity index futures were higher this morning. S&P 500 futures were up 30 points at 8:35 AM EDT. S&P 500 futures were unchanged following release of U.S. second quarter Non-farm Productivity at 8:30 AM EDT. Consensus was a 1.5% increase versus a gain of 0.2% in the first […]

Pre-opening Comments for Wednesday July 31st U.S. equity index futures were higher this morning. S&P 500 futures were up 65 points at 8:35 AM EDT. The Canadian Dollar added 0.04 to US72.38 cents following release of Canada’s May GDP report at 8:30 AM EDT. Consensus was an increase of 0.1% versus a gain of 0.3% […]

Pre-opening Comment for Tuesday July 30th U.S. equity index futures were higher this morning. S&P 500 futures were up 8 points at 8:30 AM EDT. F5 advanced $22.66 to $200.25 after reporting higher than consensus fiscal third quarter earnings. The company also raised fourth quarter guidance. Symbotic dropped $6.19 to $29.44 after reporting less than […]