{"id":68175,"date":"2009-12-07T05:33:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T10:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/europe-falls-us-futures-pointing-down-2009-12"},"modified":"2009-12-07T05:33:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-07T10:33:00","slug":"us-futures-head-into-the-red","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/68175","title":{"rendered":"US Futures Head Into The Red"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Asia gained overnight, but European stocks fell, and the US markets are picking up where they left off on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Technically, Friday was an up day, but it sure didn&#8217;t <em>feel<\/em> that way, as markets gave up huge post-BLS gains to end only modestly in the green.<\/p>\n<p>And now US indices are pointing lower, with several hours to go before trading begins.<\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s an interesting tidbit from <a href=\"http:\/\/bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=aSQrNHqPjnz0&amp;pos=2\">Bloomberg<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">S&amp;P 500 options to protect against declines in stocks over the next year cost 22 percent more than one-month contracts, the highest since 1999, data compiled by London-based Barclays Plc and Bloomberg show. The gap shows concern that analyst estimates for record earnings by 2011 may prove exaggerated, endangering an advance that pushed the S&amp;P 500 up 63 percent since March.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/~~\/f?id=4b1cd991000000000013e6fe&amp;maxX=538&amp;maxY=150\" border=\"0\" alt=\"futures\" width=\"538\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/europe-falls-us-futures-pointing-down-2009-12#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\/gold-tanks-again-while-the-nikkei-power-higher-2009-12\">Gold Tanks Again, While The Nikkei Charges Higher<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/obama-tanks-the-market-2009-12\">Is Obama Tanking The Market?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/now-thats-a-gold-selloff-2009-12\">Now THAT&#8217;S A Gold Selloff <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/4-jQQgOxu1g\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asia gained overnight, but European stocks fell, and the US markets are picking up where they left off on Friday. Technically, Friday was an up day, but it sure didn&#8217;t feel that way, as markets gave up huge post-BLS gains to end only modestly in the green. And now US indices are pointing lower, with [&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-68175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68175","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=68175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}