Stock Market Today: S&P 500 Looks to Snap Three-Day Skid As Financials and Energy Stocks Recover

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The U.S. markets are present open. The Russell 2000 (+0.57%) has already reversed yesterday's -0.45% diminution from yesterday; it's present conscionable a substance of holding onto those gains for the day.

In ample caps, the Dow (+0.36%) is besides having a coagulated commencement to the day. The S&P 500(+0.12%) and Nasdaq (+0.09%), by contrast, are conscionable up a fewer ground points astatine the marketplace open. For the former, a summation contiguous would enactment an extremity to a 3 time skid for the index.

The 10Y is up 0.8 bips to 4.157%.

One of the foreboding themes of the Tuesday commercialized -- speech from so-so payrolls -- was the ample diminution successful U.S. vigor stocks. The S&P Energy assemblage declined 3% arsenic home lipid prices approached a astir four-year low. This morning, the U.S. lipid benchmark known arsenic WTI Crude, is trading astatine $56 -- up astir 1.5%.

Today, the assemblage is up astir 1%, taking a wound of immoderate of yesterday's losses. Financials and materials are besides joining successful the recovery, up much than fractional a percent point.

Joining successful immoderate of that excitement are Natural Gas continuous futures (+2.96% to $4.001) and the planetary lipid benchmark, Brent Crude (+1.46% to $59.78), which is seeing a steadfast bump successful its continuous futures too.

But since it's the vacation season, determination mightiness not beryllium a much timely commercialized than Silver (+3.75% and $65.675) and Gold (+0.81% to $4,367) -- they're up again today, continuing a hefty showing from precious metals successful caller trading.

We'll update this conception with much accusation this greeting arsenic it emerges.

Good morning. Futures this greeting are presently pointing to humble gains successful U.S. equities this morning, perchance offsetting Tuesday's tepid payrolls marketplace reaction.

Here are each of the companies with astatine slightest a $1 cardinal marketplace headdress which are slated to study today, per Nasdaq:

Today volition beryllium a reasonably relaxed time compared with yesterday, which saw the merchandise of the overdue October payrolls alongside November's data. Here is what is connected platform for today:

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