U.S. stock-index futures traded flat on Tuesday, as rising Treasury yields, which continued to advance in respocse to yesterday’s renomination of Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell for a second term and increasing bets that the Fed could speed up its taper plan and shift to hiking interest rates sooner than planned, weighed on technology stocks but supported bank shares.
Global Stocks:
Index/commodity
| Last
| Today's Change, points | Today's Change, % |
Nikkei | - | - | - |
Hang Seng | 24,651.58 | -299.76 | -1.20% |
Shanghai | 3,589.09 | +7.01 | +0.20% |
S&P/ASX | 7,410.60 | +57.50 | +0.78% |
FTSE | 7,262.42 | +6.96 | +0.10% |
CAC | 7,085.76 | -19.24 | -0.27% |
DAX | 15,997.95 | -117.74 | -0.73% |
Crude oil | $76.94 |
| +0.25% |
Gold | $1,787.70 |
| -1.03% |