Dow, S&P 500 Futures Tick Up; Oil Slides, SpaceX IPO in Focus
Stocks on Wall Street were poised to open a bit higher Friday, with U.S. futures steady to slightly up after a steep rally on Thursday. The S&P 500 futures edged up 0.2%. Dow futures gained 0.4%. Nasdaq futures barely moved, early AP market data showed. On Thursday, the Dow finished up 929.97 points, or 1.86%. The S&P 500 ended 1.75% higher at 7,394.30. The Nasdaq Composite rose 2.54% to 25,809.66. Oil prices tumbled in premarket trading after President Donald Trump scrapped planned strikes on Iran and said a peace agreement that might reopen the Strait of Hormuz could be signed as early as this weekend. Brent fell 4.22% to $86.57 a barrel. U.S. WTI crude dropped 4.33% to $83.91 a barrel, the lowest for both since April 17. "Headlines are driving the market once again," Tamas Varga, an analyst at PVM Oil Associates, told Reuters. ING analysts said oil could still jump if flows remain disrupted through late July.