{"id":121472,"date":"2018-02-12T06:20:05","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T11:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/?p=121472"},"modified":"2018-06-01T15:42:21","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T15:42:21","slug":"us-stock-futures-gain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/2018\/02\/us-stock-futures-gain\/","title":{"rendered":"US stock futures gain"},"content":{"rendered":"
February 12, 2018<\/div>
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By IFCMarkets<\/a><\/p>\n

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Dow bounces back into positive territory<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

US stocks\u00a0<\/b>rebounded on Friday in volatile session recording the worst weekly decline in two years however.\u00a0S&P 500<\/a>recovered 1.5% to 2619.55 led by technology shares, up 2.5%.\u00a0Dow Jones\u00a0<\/em>industrial average rose 1.4% to 24190.90, returning back into positive territory. Both the US broad market index and Dow industrial fell 5.2% for the week. TheNasdaq\u00a0<\/em>composite added 1.4% to 6874.47. The dollar resumed strengthening: the\u00a0live dollar index<\/a>\u00a0data show the ICE US Dollar index, a measure of the dollar\u2019s strength against a basket of six rival currencies, rose 0.2% to 90.426. Index futures point to higher openings today.<\/p>\n

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European indices open higher<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

European stocks\u00a0<\/b>retreat continued on Friday as turmoil on Wall Street undermined investors risk appetite. Both theeuro\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0British Pound\u00a0<\/em>turned lower against the dollar. The Stoxx Europe 600 index fell 1.5%. The\u00a0DAX 30\u00a0<\/em>lost 1.3% to 12107.48. France\u2019s\u00a0CAC 40\u00a0<\/em>slumped 1.4% and UK\u2019s\u00a0FTSE 100\u00a0<\/a>fell 1.1% to 7092.43. Markets opened 0.7%-1% higher today.<\/p>\n

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Asian markets rebound<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Asian stock indices<\/b>\u00a0are mostly higher today. Yen resumed strengthening against the dollar in light trading with markets closed in Japan for a holiday. Chinese stocks are mixed: the\u00a0Shanghai Composite Index\u00a0<\/em>is up 0.5% while Hong Kong\u2019s\u00a0Hang Seng\u00a0<\/em>Index is 03% lower. Australia\u2019s All Ordinaries Index is down 0.3% as continued Australian dollar extends gains against the greenback.<\/p>\n

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Brent\u00a0<\/a>recovers<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Brent futures prices\u00a0<\/b>are edging higher today with US output increase worries capping the gains. Prices fell Friday on rising US domestic output concerns after Baker Hughes reported a third straight week of increases in the number of active US oil rigs. April Brent fell 3.1% to $662.79 a barrel on Friday. It lost 8.4% in the week.<\/p>\n

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By IFCMarkets Dow bounces back into positive territory US stocks\u00a0rebounded on Friday in volatile session recording the worst weekly decline in two years however.\u00a0S&P 500recovered 1.5% to 2619.55 led by technology shares, up 2.5%.\u00a0Dow Jones\u00a0industrial average rose 1.4% to 24190.90, returning back into positive territory. Both the US broad market index and Dow industrial fell […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","no-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121472"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127251,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121472\/revisions\/127251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}