Stock futures are mixed on Tuesday as fourth-quarter trading gets underway with major indexes at record highs, while investors await key economic data releases in the coming days.
CommSec’s Tom Piotrowski says it was “encouraging” to see the Dow Jonesclose at “record highs” on Friday. “The US market on Friday was, I suppose, encouraging,” Mr Piotrowski told ...
The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 0.4%, while the S&P 500 fell 0.9% and the Nasdaq Composite declined 1.5%. The price of crude oil rose just under 1% to about $70 a barrel.
The Dow Jones gained 0.6% last week to finish at 42,313, an all-time closing high. The S&P 500 hit a record closing high last Thursday at 5,745, but then fell back slightly on Friday to close the week ...