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U.S. stock futures took a sudden, sharp dive south on Friday, on the heels of selling of Chinese index futures after regulatory news out of China which will allow fund managers to lend stocks for short selling.
“This is apparently weighing heavily on Chinese index futures, which is dragging equities lower across the board. Europe is getting battered now as well,” said Craig Erlam, senior market analyst OANDA. Futures of H-shares, Chinese stocks listed in Hong Kong, were down 5%.
At the same time there was a Bloomberg terminal outage earlier today. The Bloomberg Professional is the company’s key product, and media reports said the terminals went down an hour before Asia stocks closed.
Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average YMM5, -0.76% slid 156 points, or 0.9%, to 17,885, while those for the S&P 500 index ESM5, -0.68% dropped 16.05 points, or 0.8% to 2,084.75. Futures for the Nasdaq 100 index NQM5, -0.92% lost 46 points, or 1%, to 4,370.
European stocks also slumped on the back of the news from China, with the Stoxx Europe 600 index SXXP, -1.54% off 1.4%.
Stocks closed slightly lower on Thursday, getting only a brief bump from a handful of Fed members who suggested a near-term interest-rate hike might be less likely. The S&P 500 ended 0.5% shy of its all-time close of 2,117.39, reached March 2.
Investors will get an update on inflation, with consumer prices for March due at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time. Economists surveyed by MarketWatch are forecasting a 0.3% rise, versus a 0.2% gain in the February. Core prices are expected to rise 0.2%, the same gain as February. Then the University of Michigan consumer sentiment survey for April is coming at 9:55 a.m. Eastern. Leading indicators for March will hit at 10 a.m. Eastern.
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U.S. stocks rose Thursday, putting them on track for a third straight session of gains amid a steady stream of earnings reports. Crafts marketplace Etsy made its market debut, posting double-digit share gains.
Correction ahead? A technical analyst told CNBC on Friday that he expects major global benchmarks to begin correcting over the next month. “I think the correction has started on the DAX, and the S&P 500 we are probably on the top today,” Yacine Kanoun, managing director at PivotHunters, a U.K.-based portfolio management company, said Friday.
Kanoun expects the expiry of options contracts on Friday to kick off a correction, and he expects the S&P 500 to come down 10% from its current peak. He sees the DAX bottoming at 11,650.
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Stocks to Watch: Ahead of the market open, General Electric GE, -0.55%reported a loss for the first quarter, sending the shares down 0.8% premarket.
Reynolds American Inc. RAI, +0.20% and Honeywell International Inc.HON, +0.13% are also due to report.
After Thursday’s close, American Express Co. AXP, -1.93% posted a 6.5% gain in profit due to card-member spending. Shares slipped 1.1% in late trade after the payment-card company said its results were hurt by a stronger dollar.
Mattel Inc. MAT, -0.39% shares rose nearly 7% in late trade after the toymaker posted a narrower-than-expected loss for the first quarter.
Advanced Micro Systems Inc. AMD, +6.30% could get hit in premarket. Shares fell nearly 9% after the chip maker posted a wider-fiscal first-quarter loss and weaker revenue.
Schlumberger NV SLB, -0.12% shares rose just over 2% in late trade. The oil-field services company said it would cut 11,000 more jobs after posting a 39% first-quarter earnings drop.
Other markets: In Asia, the Nikkei 225 NIK, -1.17% posted a 1.2% drop, while the Shanghai Composite Index SHCOMP, +2.20% surged 2.2%. The dollar remained DAX, -1.89% under pressure, while gold prices CLK5, -0.71% pushed higher.
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