Pre-opening Comments for Monday May 14th U.S. equity index futures are lower this morning. S&P 500 futures are down 11 points in pre-opening trade. Index futures are responding to news that Greece failed to form a coalition government over the weekend. Interest rates in Greece, Spain, Portugal and Italy spiked on the news. European equity [...]

Pre-opening Comments for Monday April 30th 2012 U.S. equity index futures are lower this morning. S&P 500 futures are down 3 points in pre-opening trade. Index futures are responding to news that Spain has entered into a double dip recession. In addition, Standard and Poor’s downgraded 16 Spanish banks due to their holdings of Spanish [...]

Pre-opening Comments for Wednesday April 11th U.S. equity index futures are higher this morning. S&P 500 futures added 10 points in pre-opening trade. Index futures are responding to higher than consensus first quarter earnings and revenues reported by Alcoa. Alcoa was expected to report a $0.04 per share loss. It reported a profit of $0.10 [...]

Pre-opening Comments for Wednesday June 1st U.S. equity index futures are lower this morning. S&P 500 futures are down 5 points in pre-opening trade. Index futures moved lower following release of the May ADP private employment report at 8:30 AM EDT. Consensus was an increase of 190,000. Actual was an increase of 38,000. The ADP [...]

Editor’s Note: Today’s Report on Business includes a column by Shirley Won entitled, “ETF leverages ‘period of seasonal strength’ “. Following is a link to the column: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/investment-ideas/number-cruncher/etf-leverages-period-of-seasonal-strength/article1962179/ Pre-opening comments for Wednesday March 30th U.S. equity index futures are higher this morning. S&P 500 futures gained 6 points in pre-opening trade. Index futures are following [...]