{"id":270070,"date":"2010-02-03T08:32:38","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T13:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/pre-market-roundup-equity-futures-down-commodities-not-looking-good-and-earnings-2010-2"},"modified":"2010-02-03T08:32:38","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T13:32:38","slug":"pre-market-roundup-equity-futures-now-down-commodities-weak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/270070","title":{"rendered":"Pre-market Roundup: Equity Futures Now Down, Commodities Weak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a decent rally over the past two days, equities may have run out of steam.<\/p>\n<p>Futures for the three major indices point downward slightly, with the S&amp;P 500 down 3.25 points to 1095.<\/p>\n<p>Metals across the board are also falling &#8211; from gold to palladium. <\/p>\n<p>Oil is slightly down by two cents a barrel to $77.21. Natural gas futures are up 1.8 at $5.533.<\/p>\n<p>Softs are down, save for cotton and lumber, which are up 3.25% and 2.15%, respectively. Aside from corn, all grains and pork belly futures are up currently.<\/p>\n<p>In the earnings and upgrades arena, Walmart (WMT) was upgraded to Buy from Hold at Stifel Nicolaus. <\/p>\n<p>Ryder &reg;, the rental truck company, saw their Q409 EPS fall by 63% YoY due to reduced performance and sales both domestically and globally.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Goldman added McDonald&#8217;s (MCD)&nbsp; and NASDAQ (NDAQ) to its Conviction Buy list.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4b697a10000000000021b550\/futuresam-feb3.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"FUTURES_AM feb3\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/pre-market-roundup-equity-futures-down-commodities-not-looking-good-and-earnings-2010-2#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/pimco-japans-economy-has-entered-a-deadly-liquidity-trap-2010-1\">PIMCO: Japan&#8217;s Economy Is In A Permanent And Deadly Liquidity Trap, And May Never Raise Rates Again<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/sovereign-backed-oil-companies-creamed-the-multinationals-in-iraq-2010-2\">Foreign State-Owned Energy Companies Dominating Iraq&#8217;s Oil Revolution, Leaving U.S. Ambitions In The Dust<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/henry-blodget-us-stocks-surge-back-into-bubble-territory-2010-1\">US Stocks Surge Back Toward Bubble Territory<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/tSSR1Po5cnI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a decent rally over the past two days, equities may have run out of steam. Futures for the three major indices point downward slightly, with the S&amp;P 500 down 3.25 points to 1095. Metals across the board are also falling &#8211; from gold to palladium. Oil is slightly down by two cents a barrel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}