{"id":129577,"date":"2018-07-05T06:03:54","date_gmt":"2018-07-05T10:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/?p=129577"},"modified":"2018-07-05T06:03:54","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T10:03:54","slug":"us-stock-futures-point-to-mixed-openings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/2018\/07\/us-stock-futures-point-to-mixed-openings\/","title":{"rendered":"US stock futures point to mixed openings"},"content":{"rendered":"
July 5, 2018<\/div>
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Dollar falls ahead of Federal meeting minutes<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

US markets\u00a0<\/b>were closed on Wednesday for Independence Day holiday. The\u00a0S&P 500<\/a>\u00a0futures rose 0.3% to 2722 in a holiday shortened session. The\u00a0Dow Jones\u00a0<\/em>industrial futures added 0.3% to 24277.\u00a0Nasdaq\u00a0<\/em>composite index futures gained 0.4% to 7050.75.The dollar weakening slowed: 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, slipped 0.1% to 94.51 and is lower currently. Stock index futures point to mixed openings today.<\/p>\n

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Today the minutes of the June Federal Reserve meeting will be published at 20:00 CET, traders don\u2019t expect to see signs of leaning toward less aggressive tightening on part of policy makers as some analysts suggested recent trade war concerns may warrant. There were no economic releases yesterday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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European stocks rebound continues<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

European stocks\u00a0<\/b>extended gains on Wednesday in thin trading with US financial markets closed for the Independence Day holiday. The\u00a0euro\u00a0<\/em>slipped against the dollar while\u00a0British Pound\u00a0<\/em>continued rising and both are higher currently. The Stoxx Europe 600 rose less than 0.1%. Germany\u2019s\u00a0DAX 30\u00a0<\/em>lost 0.3% to 12317.61. France\u2019s\u00a0CAC 40\u00a0<\/a>gained less than 0.1% and UK\u2019sFTSE 100\u00a0<\/em>fell 0.3% to 7573.09. Indices opened mixed today.<\/p>\n

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German coalition negotiations are still in focus as leaders from the Social Democrats (SPD) are said to be considering whether to support a deal for tighter control over immigration agreed by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her Interior Minister Horst Seehofer. In economic news the final reading on Markit\u2019s composite PMI in the euro-zone in June came in at 54.9. The flash PMI figure was 54.8. Readings above 50 indicate expansion in business activity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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China says will retaliate in kind<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Asian stock indices<\/b>\u00a0are mixed today as traders await the July 6 deadline for US tariffs on $34 billion worth of imports to take effect, and Beijing has promised to retaliate in kind.\u00a0Nikkei\u00a0<\/em>ended 0.8% lower at 21546.99 despite the yen slide against the dollar. China\u2019s stocks are falling: the\u00a0Shanghai Composite Index\u00a0<\/em>is 0.9% lower and Hong Kong\u2019s\u00a0Hang Seng Index\u00a0<\/em>is down 0.4%. However Australia\u2019s All Ordinaries Index is up 0.5% with Australian dollar little changed against the greenback.<\/p>\n

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Brent\u00a0<\/a>falls on Trump\u00a0tweet<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Brent futures prices\u00a0<\/b>are retreating today after US President Donald Trump\u2019s tweet demanding that OPEC cut prices for crude oil. Prices ended higher yesterday: September Brent crude rose 0.6% to $78.24 a barrel on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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By IFCMarkets Dollar falls ahead of Federal meeting minutes US markets\u00a0were closed on Wednesday for Independence Day holiday. The\u00a0S&P 500\u00a0futures rose 0.3% to 2722 in a holiday shortened session. The\u00a0Dow Jones\u00a0industrial futures added 0.3% to 24277.\u00a0Nasdaq\u00a0composite index futures gained 0.4% to 7050.75.The dollar weakening slowed: the\u00a0live dollar index\u00a0data show the ICE US Dollar index, a […]<\/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-129577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","no-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129577","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=129577"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129581,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129577\/revisions\/129581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}