Traders enactment connected the level astatine the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) successful New York City, U.S., August 12, 2025.
Brendan McDermid | Reuters
Stock futures traded astir unchanged Sunday evening aft hopes for little involvement rates fueled a winning week connected Wall Street.
Dow Jones Industrial Average futures roseate astir 13 points. S&P 500 futures and the Nasdaq 100 futures were some flat.
Sunday night's enactment comes aft the 3 large averages notched their 2nd consecutive affirmative week. The Dow climbed 1.7%, portion the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite roseate 0.9% and 0.8%, respectively. It was besides the 4th week of gains retired of the past 5 for the S&P 500 and Nasdaq.
Small-cap stocks outperformed past week, jumping much than 3% arsenic investors stake connected forthcoming complaint cuts from the Federal Reserve.
Ross Mayfield, concern strategist astatine Baird Private Wealth Management, besides pointed to the S&P 500 Equal Weight Consumer Discretionary scale hitting an all-time precocious arsenic a motion that tariff-driven economical fears whitethorn beryllium overblown.
"With the market's connection rather upbeat ... it raises the question of whether the accepted contented astir a weakening U.S. user and imaginable stagflation is missing the mark," helium wrote successful a Friday note.
The Fed volition proceed to beryllium successful absorption this week arsenic cardinal slope members question to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, for the yearly economical argumentation symposium. Investors volition beryllium monitoring the lawsuit for clues astir the aboriginal way of rates. Fed funds futures are pricing successful a astir 85% likelihood that the cardinal slope cuts rates astatine its adjacent argumentation gathering successful September, according to CME's FedWatch tool.
Beyond economical policy, traders volition beryllium monitoring net reports owed implicit the people of the week arsenic the play winds down. Big-box retailers, including Home Depot, Lowe's, Walmart and Target, are among the large companies slated to merchandise results this week.
Of the much than 92% of S&P 500 companies that person already reported this quarter, astir 82% person surpassed Wall Street's expectations, according to FactSet.
Stocks travel disconnected winning week
The 3 large indexes are coming disconnected back-to-back winning weeks. Here's however the averages performed past week:
- The Dow gained 1.7%
- The S&P 500 added 0.9%
- The Nasdaq Composite roseate 0.8%
— Alex Harring
Stock futures are adjacent flat
Futures tied to the Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 were each small changed soon aft 6 p.m. ET.
— Alex Harring