U.S. futures for the S&P 500 were up 0.3% and futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 0.1%. Changes in futures do not necessarily predict movements after the opening bell.
In Europe, the Stoxx Europe 600 gained 0.1% in morning trading. Auto1 Group rose 10.2% and Straumann Holding added 7.1%. On the other hand, BMW slipped 7.1%, and Zealand Pharma sunk 4.2%. The FTSE 100 was flat. Other stocks in Europe were mixed as France’s CAC 40 was flat and Germany’s DAX dropped 0.2%.
The Wall Street Journal Dollar Index was flat at 96.15.
In commodities, Brent crude fell 0.7% to $78.41 a barrel, and WTI crude dropped 1.7% to $74.76 a barrel. The European benchmark price for natural gas, the Dutch futures contract TTF, was down 0.9% to 41.4 euros a megawatt hour.
The German 10-year Bund yield held steady at 2.931%, and the yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury declined by 1 basis point to 4.436% from 4.445%. Bond prices and yields move in opposite directions.
Stocks in Asia were mixed as Japan’s Nikkei 225 index climbed 0.7%, whereas Hong Kong’s Hang Seng declined 0.7%. China’s benchmark Shanghai Composite climbed 0.4%.
-This article was automatically generated by Dow Jones Newswires.
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