U.S. stock futures slipped Monday, pulling back after Friday's rally, which marked the fifth consecutive session of gains over the Thanksgiving weekend.
Markets remained downbeat Monday morning despite strong Black Friday sales, with online sales rising 9.4% from a year earlier and easing fears of the first sales decline in four years amid weakening consumer sentiment.
Investors await earnings from MongoDB Inc. (NASDAQ:MDB), CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:CRWD) and Salesforce Inc. (NYSE:CRM), among others, this week, following the long Thanksgiving weekend.
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The 10-year Treasury bond yielded 4.04% and the two-year bond was at 3.49%. The CME Group’s FedWatch tool‘s projections show markets pricing a 87.6% likelihood of the Federal Reserve cutting the current interest rates during its December meeting.
| Futures | Change (+/-) |
| Dow Jones | -0.40% |
| S&P 500 | -0.53% |
| Nasdaq 100 | -0.66% |
| Russell 2000 | -0.77% |
The SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE:SPY) and Invesco QQQ Trust ETF (NASDAQ:QQQ), which track the S&P 500 index and Nasdaq 100 index, respectively, were lower in premarket on Monday. The SPY was down 0.63% at $679.22, while the QQQ was lower by 0.78% at $614.42, according to Benzinga Pro data.
All S&P 500 sectors barring health care were in the green on Friday, with energy, IT, communications and financial services leading the way.
| Index | Performance (+/-) | Value |
| Nasdaq Composite | 0.65% | 23,365.69 |
| S&P 500 | 0.54% | 6,849.09 |
| Dow Jones | 0.61% | 47,716.42 |
| Russell 2000 | 0.58% | 2,500.43 |
On the first trading day of the month, Ryan Detrick, chief market strategist at the Carson Group, pointed out that whenever the S&P 500 has been up more than 10% year-to-date heading into the final two months of the year, the index has finished those last two months in positive territory all 16 times on record.
On Sunday, in a post on X, Detrick concluded by saying that he still thinks Santa’s “coming to town in December,” hinting at a strong end to the year.
No economic data is scheduled for Monday.
Crude oil futures climbed 1.69% in early New York trading, holding around $59.53 a barrel.
Gold Spot US Dollar rose 0.80% to hover around $4,253.07 per ounce. Its last record high stood at $4,381.6 per ounce. The U.S. Dollar Index spot was 0.19% lower at the 99.26521 level.
Meanwhile, Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) was trading 4.20% lower at $86,640.39 per coin.
Asian markets were mixed on Monday, with Japan’s Nikkei 225, India’s Nifty 50 and Australia’s ASX 200 dropping, while China’s SHENZHEN and Shanghai were in the green. European markets had a similarly mixed start to the day.
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