U.S. stock-index futures traded flat on Wednesday, as the equity market hovered near record highs, while investors digested the latest batch of earnings reports from the U.S. retailers and assessed the prospects of the interest rate hikes by the Fed in response to hot inflation data.
Global Stocks:
Index/commodity
| Last
| Today's Change, points | Today's Change, % |
Nikkei | 29,688.33 | -119.79 | -0.40% |
Hang Seng | 25,650.08 | -63.70 | -0.25% |
Shanghai | 3,537.37 | +15.58 | +0.44% |
S&P/ASX | 7,369.90 | -50.50 | -0.68% |
FTSE | 7,292.66 | -34.31 | -0.47% |
CAC | 7,160.31 | +7.71 | +0.11% |
DAX | 16,264.82 | +16.96 | +0.10% |
Crude oil | $79.81 |
| -1.18% |
Gold | $1,863.20 |
| +0.49% |