U.S. stock-index futures rose on Thursday, as official data showed the U.S. weekly jobless claims fell from the previous two weeks.
Global Stocks:
| Index/commodity | Last | Today's Change, points | Today's Change, % |
| Nikkei | 19,290.20 | -259.89 | -1.33% |
| Hang Seng | 24,006.45 | -138.89 | -0.58% |
| Shanghai | 2,819.94 | +8.76 | +0.31% |
| S&P/ASX | 5,416.30 | -50.40 | -0.92% |
| FTSE | 5,627.46 | +29.81 | +0.53% |
| CAC | 4,382.89 | +29.17 | +0.67% |
| DAX | 10,404.47 | +124.71 | +1.21% |
| Crude oil | $20.19 | | +1.61% |
| Gold | $1,752.60 | | +0.71% |
(company / ticker / price / change ($/%) / volume)
| 3M Co | MMM | 146.94 | 1.78(1.22%) | 158447 |
| ALCOA INC. | AA | 7.31 | 0.05(0.69%) | 9373 |
| ALTRIA GROUP INC. | MO | 41.06 | 0.15(0.37%) | 6331 |
| Amazon.com Inc., NASDAQ | AMZN | 2,341.50 | 33.82(1.47%) | 129383 |
| American Express Co | AXP | 84.58 | 0.79(0.94%) | 12930 |
| AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL GROUP | AIG | 24 | -0.08(-0.33%) | 3945 |
| Apple Inc. | AAPL | 288.3 | 3.87(1.36%) | 476483 |
| AT&T Inc | T | 30.24 | 0.15(0.50%) | 121195 |
| Boeing Co | BA | 144.5 | -1.48(-1.01%) | 289573 |
| Caterpillar Inc | CAT | 112.1 | 0.57(0.51%) | 9850 |
| Chevron Corp | CVX | 82.7 | 0.21(0.25%) | 115802 |
| Cisco Systems Inc | CSCO | 41.76 | 0.24(0.58%) | 50255 |
| Citigroup Inc., NYSE | C | 43 | 0.14(0.33%) | 124187 |
| Deere & Company, NYSE | DE | 136 | 0.69(0.51%) | 1202 |
| E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Co | DD | 35.98 | 0.41(1.15%) | 550 |
| Exxon Mobil Corp | XOM | 40.66 | 0.18(0.45%) | 110475 |
| Facebook, Inc. | FB | 178.05 | 1.08(0.61%) | 116089 |
| FedEx Corporation, NYSE | FDX | 120.89 | 0.99(0.83%) | 13550 |
| Ford Motor Co. | F | 5.06 | 0.03(0.60%) | 355380 |
| Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc., NYSE | FCX | 7.85 | 0.18(2.35%) | 62486 |
| General Electric Co | GE | 6.49 | -0.01(-0.15%) | 822202 |
| General Motors Company, NYSE | GM | 21.86 | 0.20(0.92%) | 34451 |
| Google Inc. | GOOG | 1,272.00 | 9.53(0.75%) | 12981 |
| Hewlett-Packard Co. | HPQ | 15.05 | 0.05(0.33%) | 1375 |
| Home Depot Inc | HD | 199.54 | 1.06(0.53%) | 19714 |
| HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC. | HON | 135.09 | 0.25(0.19%) | 867 |
| Intel Corp | INTC | 59.85 | 0.98(1.66%) | 101228 |
| International Business Machines Co... | IBM | 119.25 | 0.56(0.47%) | 13129 |
| International Paper Company | IP | 32.2 | 0.40(1.26%) | 701 |
| Johnson & Johnson | JNJ | 148.8 | 1.14(0.77%) | 38262 |
| JPMorgan Chase and Co | JPM | 90.95 | 0.16(0.18%) | 128325 |
| McDonald's Corp | MCD | 179.07 | 1.23(0.69%) | 14445 |
| Merck & Co Inc | MRK | 82.18 | 0.11(0.13%) | 2695 |
| Microsoft Corp | MSFT | 174.78 | 2.90(1.69%) | 608663 |
| Nike | NKE | 86.05 | 1.01(1.19%) | 165583 |
| Pfizer Inc | PFE | 36.24 | 0.27(0.75%) | 10913 |
| Procter & Gamble Co | PG | 121.89 | 0.67(0.55%) | 18755 |
| Starbucks Corporation, NASDAQ | SBUX | 73.11 | 0.56(0.77%) | 23603 |
| Tesla Motors, Inc., NASDAQ | TSLA | 721.95 | -7.88(-1.08%) | 392916 |
| The Coca-Cola Co | KO | 47.9 | 0.29(0.61%) | 74871 |
| Travelers Companies Inc | TRV | 102 | -0.17(-0.17%) | 1934 |
| Twitter, Inc., NYSE | TWTR | 26.99 | -0.52(-1.89%) | 377253 |
| UnitedHealth Group Inc | UNH | 281.65 | -0.03(-0.01%) | 6870 |
| Verizon Communications Inc | VZ | 57.83 | 0.90(1.58%) | 50272 |
| Visa | V | 168.48 | 2.52(1.52%) | 53772 |
| Wal-Mart Stores Inc | WMT | 129.26 | 0.50(0.39%) | 22323 |
| Walt Disney Co | DIS | 104.62 | 1.25(1.21%) | 109114 |
| Yandex N.V., NASDAQ | YNDX | 35.84 | 0.95(2.72%) | 6769 |
Barrick (GOLD) downgraded to Equal Weight from Overweight at Barclays
MasterCard (MA) downgraded to Neutral from Buy at Guggenheim
Twitter (TWTR) downgraded to Neutral from Overweight at JP Morgan; target $29
Freeport-McMoRan (FCX) upgraded to Overweight from Equal Weight at Barclays; target $10
Morgan Stanley (MS) reported Q1 FY 2020 earnings of $1.01 per share (versus $1.33 per share in Q1 FY 2019), missing analysts' consensus estimate of $1.11 per share.
The company's quarterly revenues amounted to $9.487 bln (-7.8% y/y), missing analysts' consensus estimate of $9.816 bln.
MS fell to $38.00 (-1.04%) in pre-market trading.
| Index | Change, points | Closed | Change, % |
|---|---|---|---|
| NIKKEI 225 | -88.72 | 19550.09 | -0.45 |
| Hang Seng | -290.06 | 24145.34 | -1.19 |
| ASX 200 | -21.4 | 5466.7 | -0.39 |
| FTSE 100 | -193.66 | 5597.65 | -3.34 |
| DAX | -416.8 | 10279.76 | -3.9 |
| CAC 40 | -170.19 | 4353.72 | -3.76 |
| Dow Jones | -445.41 | 23504.35 | -1.86 |
| S&P 500 | -62.7 | 2783.36 | -2.2 |
| NASDAQ Composite | -122.56 | 8393.18 | -1.44 |