S&P 500 Futures Decline in Premarket Trading; Medpace Holdings, IQVIA Holdings Lead

With U.S. stock markets set to open in two hours, Medpace Holdings Inc. (MEDP) was up 45.4% in pre-market trading, and IQVIA Holdings Inc. (IQV) was up 8.8%.

D.R. Horton Inc. (DHI), Icon PLC (ICLR), and Charles River Laboratories International Inc. (CRL) were all posting gains of at least 5%. In early trading, QuantumScape Corp. Cl A (QS) and NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NXPI) had posted declines, falling 8.9% and 6.6%, respectively.

Meanwhile S&P 500 futures were down 0.07%, with futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average falling 0.17%. The Cboe Volatility Index futures were down 0.42%.

In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were down 0.87%, and gold futures were down 0.24%. rose 1.91% to $119,003.

The 10-Year Treasury yield climbed to 4.397%.

In the previous regular trading session, the was up 0.14%, while the was down 0.04%. Stocks in Asia were mixed overnight, with Japan’s NIKKEI 225 Index down 0.11% and China’s Shanghai Composite Index up 0.62%.

In afternoon trading, stocks in Europe are down, with the STOXX Europe 600 Index falling 0.64% and the FTSE 100 Index dropping 0.10% from the previous close.

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