Pre-opening Comments for Monday July 22nd U.S. equity index futures were higher this morning. S&P 500 futures were up 37 points at 8:30 AM EDT. CrowdStrike dropped another $12.73 to $292.23 after Guggenheim downgraded the stock from Buy to Neutral. Air Canada is expected to open lower after the company trimmed its full year guidance. […]

Pre-opening Comments for Friday July 19th U.S. equity index futures were mixed this morning. S&P 500 futures were unchanged at 8:30 AM EDT. Microsoft dropped $5.97 to $434.40 and Crowdstrike fell $34.75 to $308.20 after a failed systems update by Crowdstrike caused a global outage of Microsystem’s IT services. Netflix added $2.96 to $646.00 after […]

Pre-opening Comments for Thursday July 18th U.S. equity index futures were higher this morning. S&P 500 futures were up 13 points at 8:35 AM EDT. S&P 500 futures added 2 points following release of the July Philly Fed Index at 8:30 AM EDT. Consensus was an increase to 2.7 from 1.3 in June. Actual was […]

Pre-opening Comments for Wednesday July 17th U.S. equity index futures were lower this morning. S&P 500 futures were down 52 points at 8:35 AM EDT. S&P 500 futures were unchanged following release of June U.S. Housing Starts at 8:30 AM EDT. Consensus called for an increase to 1.31 million units from 1.277 million units in […]

Pre-opening Comments for Tuesday July 16th U.S. equity index futures were higher this morning. S&P 500 futures were up 14 points at 8:35 AM EDT S&P 500 futures added 5 points following release of June U.S. Retail Sales at 8:30 AM EDT. Consensus was a drop of 0.4% versus a gain of 0.1% in May. […]