U.S. markets are coming off a meager up week with the Dow Jones and S&P 500 closes the in the green the last 3 session prior to the weekend. The NASDAQ, however, is having difficulties with its largest component Apple (AAPL, quote) continues to struggle.
Welcome to Monday’s Morning Coffee Break – U.S. futures are suggesting a positive open this morning after Friday’s sharpest one day drop in nearly four months. Market participants will be starting the week off with no economic data releases putting the focus on earnings and U.S. politics. Headlines in the Euro Zone will have a stronger impact on U.S. markets as well.
Welcome to Tuesday’s Morning Coffee Break – History repeated itself as the Dow Jones dropped for the 15th Monday out of 16th weeks. U.S. futures are suggesting positive opening in early electronic trading with the Dow Jones fair value at 18.08, S&P 500 fair value 1.66 and the NASDAQ’s fair value coming in at 4.12.
Welcome to today’s Morning Coffee Break – hold on tight as today is “quadruple witching”. For those unsure of what quarterly “quadruple witching” is, it’s a period of time simultaneous expiration of various options and futures contracts that happens once each quarter. Doing a little digging we found that the last 8 times this has occurred in September, the Dow Jones has traded higher. The Dow Jones also has been
Welcome to today’s Morning Coffee Break – U.S. futures are under pressure today as traders become fearful once again of global growth outlook after China reported its 11th consecutive disappointing Purchasing Managers Survey (PMI) of 46.3 for the month of August.
Welcome to today’s Morning Coffee Break – traders had a case of Deja vu yesterday as the U.S. markets traded similar to last week ahead of the European Central Bank (ECB) and U.S Federal Reserve meetings. U.S. futures are indicating a positive opening today with the Dow Jones fair value of 30.36, S&P 500 fair value of 2.33 and the NASDAQ’s fair value currently at 5.37.
Welcome to today’s Morning Coffee Break – U.S futures are indicating a lower open with fair value for the Dow Jones at -23.10, S&P 500 at -2.24 and the NASDAQ fair value at -5.84. Market participants will get to hear from two Federal Reserve officials throughout the day today.
Welcome to today’s Morning Coffee Break – The Federal Reserve decisively stepped off the sidelines with a stronger than expected new round of unlimited quantitative easing (QE3) sending U.S. markets rallying. Market participants are clearly satisfied with the FMOC’s move as U.S. futures are indicating an extension of yesterday’s rally.
Traders are setting their focus on 3 key events today as U.S. market session prepares to open. U.S futures are suggesting positive open with the Dow Jones fair value up by 20.64 and the S&P 500’s fair value higher by 3.34. The NASDAQ is getting nice push higher ahead of Apple’s (APPL, [stock APPL]). Fair value for the NASDAQ is higher by 9.81.
Can U.S. markets move higher after a broad sell off Monday? Two weeks ago trader overcame the broad sell off but future’s today look basically flat in pre-markets with implied opens for Dow Jones at 13.34, S&P 500 0.03 and the NASDAQ at 2.26 as of 8:40 a.m. ET.
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