Stock futures are little changed to kick off September trading: Live updates

U.S. banal futures were small changed Monday nighttime arsenic traders braced for a perchance pugnacious period up aft a beardown but volatile August.

Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 15 points. S&P 500 futures roseate 0.1%, and Nasdaq-100 futures gained 0.2%.

U.S. markets were closed Monday owed to the Labor Day holiday.

The large averages are coming disconnected a winning session, securing a summation for the month. The S&P 500 roseate 2.3% successful August, marking its 4th consecutive monthly gain. The Dow and Nasdaq precocious 1.8% and 0.7%, respectively, during the period.

Those moves came aft a steep sell-off to statesman the month. Concern implicit the U.S. system falling into a recession, on with the unwinding of a fashionable hedge money commercialized involving the Japanese yen, sent stocks tumbling successful aboriginal August. At 1 point, the S&P 500 was down much than 7% for the period earlier recovering.

"August got disconnected to an incredibly unsmooth start," wrote Deutsche Bank macro strategist Henry Allen. "But aft August 5, calm began to instrumentality to markets. In part, that was helped by much affirmative information connected the US economy, which helped to easiness fears astir an imminent recession."

Investors volition get their archetypal large economical study of the period connected Friday, erstwhile the U.S. authorities releases the August jobs report. Wall Street volition besides person to contend with seasonal headwinds, arsenic September has been the worst period connected mean for the S&P 500 implicit the past 10 years.