The S&P 500 index futures soared higher on Monday before the official opening of the U.S stock market, as stock traders awaited outlooks for the week from major blue-chip brands. The outlooks are supposed to give investors and stock analysts more insights about America’s economic performance.
Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 223 points or 0.8%. The move implied an increase of 244 points at Monday’s open. S&P 500 futures added 0.7%. Nasdaq-100 futures contracts rose 0.9%.
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“We think earnings are likely to recover in the second half of the year and excess liquidity will continue to support risk assets,” said Julie Fox at UBS Private Wealth Management told Bloomberg News. “We see further potential in global equities and think there’s some upside in segments of the market that have underperformed during the crisis.
Quick fact; American Stock futures are simply standardized contracts that global traders use in purchasing or selling the U.S stock in a future date. This means that the U.S stock futures give an insight into what global investors see before the market opens, or after it closes
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However, Milan Cutkovic, Market Analyst at AxiCorp in a note to Nairametrics explained the growing concerns global stock traders are facing presently. He said;
“There is no need to fear summer doldrums. With a global pandemic, on-going Brexit negotiation, increasing tensions between the United States and China, and the US election campaigns, there is no shortage of topics to keep market participants occupied.”
