S&P 500 Futures Drop in Premarket Trading; James Hardie Industries, Amer Sports Lead

With U.S. stock markets set to open in two hours, James Hardie Industries PLC (JHX) was up 8.4% in pre-market trading, and Amer Sports Inc. (AS) was up 8.1%.

Axalta Coating Systems Ltd. (AXTA), Elbit Systems Ltd. (ESLT), and Merck & Co. Inc. (MRK) were all posting gains of at least 4%. In early trading, Opendoor Technologies Inc. (OPEN) and Lemonade Inc. (LMND) had posted declines, falling 6.9% and 4.0%, respectively.

Meanwhile S&P 500 futures were down 0.38%, with futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average falling 0.62%. The Cboe Volatility Index futures were up 4.47%.

In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were down 0.06%, while gold futures were down 0.81%. fell 0.65% to $91,258.

The 10-Year Treasury yield slipped to 4.109%.

In the previous regular trading session, the and the were down 0.92% and 1.18%, respectively. Stocks in Asia were down overnight, with Japan’s NIKKEI 225 Index down 3.22% and China’s Shanghai Composite Index falling 0.81%.

In afternoon trading, stocks in Europe are down, with the STOXX Europe 600 Index falling 1.46% and the FTSE 100 Index declining 1.40% from the previous close.

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