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Sunday, June 03, 2012

Sunday Night Futures

by Calculated Risk on 6/03/2012 10:06:00 PM

The only release on Monday is Factory Orders at 10:00 AM. The consensus is for a 0.1% increase in orders.

The focus will probably be on Europe again, although the FTSE 100 is closed for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.  The ECB meets on Wednesday (see Europe: A few Key Dates this Month )

The Asian markets are all red tonight. The Nikkei is down about 2.2%, and the Shanghai Composite is down 1.3%.

From CNBC: Pre-Market Data and Bloomberg futures: the S&P 500 futures are down about 10, and Dow futures are down 100.

Oil: WTI futures are at $82.30 (this is down from $109.77 in February) and Brent is at $97.73 per barrel. Both are down about 10% over the last week.

Saturday:
Summary for Week Ending June 1st
Schedule for Week of June 3rd

For the monthly economic question contest (two more questions for June):