• Before the bell: S&P futures +0.04%, NASDAQ futures +0.22%

Market news

26 August 2020

Before the bell: S&P futures +0.04%, NASDAQ futures +0.22%

U.S. stock-index futures rose slightly on Wednesday, as market participants braced for the Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell's speech at the annual Jackson Hole Symposium on Thursday. Investors also assessed upbeat data on U.S. durable goods orders for July and quarterly earning reports from Salesforce (CRM; +15.3% in pre-market trading), Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE; +7.9%) and Nordstrom (JWN; -1.5%). 


Global Stocks:

Index/commodity

Last

Today's Change, points

Today's Change, %

Nikkei

23,290.86

-5.91

-0.03%

Hang Seng

25,491.79

+5.57

+0.02%

Shanghai

3,329.74

-43.84

-1.30%

S&P/ASX

6,116.40

-45.00

-0.73%

FTSE

6,037.51

+0.50

+0.01%

CAC

5,024.09

+15.82

+0.32%

DAX

13,118.43

+56.81

+0.43%

Crude oil

$43.21


-0.32%

Gold

$1,912.70


-0.54%

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