Stock Market Today: Futures Point to More Declines for Nasdaq, S&P 500 As Tech and Crypto Continue Days-Long Skid

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Good morning. We'd accidental that 'today is different day', but aft 3 consecutive days of declines successful the U.S. markets, we're going to err connected the broadside of caution and effort not to jinx it. And there's much reasons to not get our hopes up this morning, arsenic equity futures look acceptable to repetition the past erstwhile more.

The NasdaqComposite futures are presently pointing to a astir 1% diminution today, portion the Russell 2000 and S&P 500 are looking astatine 0.89% and 0.69% declines astatine the open. Those marque the Dow's 0.44% diminution look beauteous tenable by contrast.

The declines travel contempt 82% of S&P 500 firms reporting an EPS surprise, portion 76% reported a gross surprise, per FactSet. And portion antagonistic outlooks person outstripped affirmative ones, net maturation is seen coming successful adjacent hotter than expected acknowledgment to the sheer measurement of surprises.

There's a batch of factors which could beryllium influential successful the marketplace this week:

For one, Nvidia's highly-anticipated net connected Wednesday. Over the past fewer weeks -- possibly owed to a fewer excessively galore AI CEO outbursts, oregon possibly shadows formed from the enslaved marketplace -- determination has been a newfound skittishness astir the information halfway and AI trades. If the AI roar is so intact, oregon crumbling, it mightiness beryllium evident arsenic the world's most-valuable steadfast reports.

It's not worthy ruling retired what cryptocurrency markets tin archer america astir the authorities of the speculative retail trader. And aft collapsing beneath $90,000 precocious Monday evening, the crypto marketplace is flashing red. It could worker back, but the weakness successful crypto has already been seen boiling implicit to markets, arsenic crypto-exposed equities, much speculative 'low quality' assets, and caller IPOs person travel backmost to Earth.

There's besides the Trump tariff case, which precocious reached the Supreme Court and elicited a scope of skeptical questions, adjacent from the court's much blimpish judges. And portion the institution of net calls talking astir "tariffs" has declined considerably from past quarter, the extremity of tariffs could beryllium a surprise.

Last, but surely not least, we person jobs information we've been waiting weeks for. In fact, this 1 should've been retired Oct. 1.