• Before the bell: S&P futures +0.12%, NASDAQ futures -0.20%

Market news

19 August 2020

Before the bell: S&P futures +0.12%, NASDAQ futures -0.20%

U.S. stock-index futures traded flat on Wednesday, as investors awaited minutes from latest Fed's meeting (due at 18:00 GMT) while assessing solid quarterly results from Target (TGT; +8.8% in premarket trading) and Lowe’s (LOW; +2.3%) as well as prospect of pared-down stimulus from the U.S. lawmakers.


Global Stocks:

Index/commodity

Last

Today's Change, points

Today's Change, %

Nikkei

23,110.61

+59.53

+0.26%

Hang Seng

25,178.91

-188.47

-0.74%

Shanghai

3,408.13

-42.96

-1.24%

S&P/ASX

6,167.60

+44.20

+0.72%

FTSE

6,087.19

+10.57

+0.17%

CAC

4,945.14

+7.08

+0.14%

DAX

12,922.23

+40.47

+0.31%

Crude oil

$42.53


-0.84%

Gold

$1,998.90


-0.70%

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