Initial Jobless Claims

Futures Drop As Nikkei Tumbles Into Bear Market Territory U.S. equity futures tumbled in early pre-market trade after the Japanese Nikkei Index fell 6.35 percent into bear market territory. The USD/JPY, meanwhile, plunged below 95 and traded near 94.30. Top News In other news around the...

The next week brings a relatively light week on the data front, with few earnings and scarce data economic data marking the calendar. The May retail sales report on Thursday and earnings from key companies including Lululemon Atletica (NASDAQ: LULU), Navistar (NYSE: NAV), and PVH Corp. (NYSE:...

Futures Rise Ahead of Central Banks, Jobless Claims as Nikkei Approaches Bear Market Territory U.S. equity futures rose in early pre-market trade ahead of key interest rate decision from both the European Central Bank and the Bank of England. Also, the initial jobless claims report in the U.S. and...

Futures Slightly Lower After Wall Street Sell-Off, Surge in M&A U.S. equity futures traded slightly lower in early pre-market trade after another sell-off Wednesday despite an upswing in M&A activity. Several deals have been announced this week and the M&A market has remained strong in...

Futures Flat After Strong Japanese GDP U.S. equity futures traded just near unchanged in early pre-market trade following a stronger than expected GDP report from Japan. Japan reported first quarter GDP rose 3.5 percent on an annualized basis, better than the 2.7 percent expected growth rate....

Futures Lower After New Record Highs U.S. equity futures traded lower in early pre-market trade after the S&P 500 made new record highs again Wednesday. However, strength in bonds and the yen could have been precursors to a pull-back, which many analysts would see as healthy at these levels....

Futures Higher On Central Banks U.S. equity futures rose slightly in early pre-market trade following the FOMC saying that it is prepared to increase or decrease asset purchases depending on the state of the economy. Today, the European Central Bank is set to release its interest rate decision and...

Futures Slightly Higher on Earnings, Economy U.S. equity futures traded slightly higher in early pre-market trade as mixed earnings and economic data kept any bullish sentiment tepid. Key economic reports from Europe continued to point to slow-to-no growth and mixed earnings from key economic...

Next week, earnings season continues as investors eye key earnings from technology behemoths Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and chip maker Texas Instruments (NASDAQ: TXN). Texas Instruments' earnings and guidance is considered a key indicator for the semiconductor, and the broader technology industry by...

Futures Slightly Higher as G20 Agrees to Avoid Competitive Devaluations U.S. equity futures rose slightly in pre-market trading following the release of a draft G20 statement. In the statement, the G20 agreed to avoid using competitive devaluations as a tool of policy, however the group refrained...

Futures Rise With Global Shares U.S. equity futures rose in early trade Thursday as global shares gained on new stimulus rounds. Asian shares rallied and European shares gained for the third straight day as sovereign bond yields on peripheral nations declined. Top News In other news around the...

Futures Higher on BoJ Easing, Eyeing BoE, ECB U.S. equity futures rose on new rounds of easing from the Bank of Japan in hopes that continued and increased central bank stimulus can continue to prop up the global economy. The BoJ is to increase purchases to seven trillion yen per month, or about...

Next week, investors eyes will be on the economy as well as some key company earnings as markets attempt to continue to make new highs. In the past week, the S&P 500 Index breached its previous closing high of 1,565.40. Investors now look to economic indicators as to the next move for markets...

Futures Lower On Europe Fears, Cyprus Banks, Eyeing GDP U.S. equity futures traded lower in early pre-market trade on European fears as Cyprus looks set to reopen its banks for the first time since a week ago Monday. The government will put in place harsh capital controls for a minimum of two...

Futures Rise After Australian Employment, ECB Report U.S. equity futures traded slightly higher in early pre-market trade following stronger than expected Australian employment data and also dovish comments from the ECB in its Monthly Bulletin. The ECB sees the eurozone economy stabilizing in 2013...