S&P 500 Futures Steady in Premarket Trading; Intuitive Surgical, Pegasystems Lead

With U.S. stock markets set to open in two hours, Intuitive Surgical Inc. (ISRG) was up 16.8% in pre-market trading, and Pegasystems Inc. (PEGA) was up 12.6%.

Vertiv Holdings LLC (VRT), Citizens Financial Group Inc. (CFG), and Capital One Financial Corp. (COF) were all posting gains of at least 4%. In early trading, Manhattan Associates Inc. (MANH) and Texas Instruments Inc. (TXN) had posted declines, falling 8.1% and 7.8%, respectively.

Meanwhile S&P 500 futures were up 0.01%, with futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average falling 0.03%. The Cboe Volatility Index futures were unchanged.

In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were up 1.91%, while gold futures were down 1.29%. fell 3.44% to $108,004.

The 10-Year Treasury yield fell to 3.950%.

In the previous regular trading session, the remained unchanged, while the was up 0.47%. Stocks in Asia were down overnight, with Japan’s NIKKEI 225 Index down 0.02% and China’s Shanghai Composite Index falling 0.07%.

In afternoon trading, stocks in Europe are up, with the STOXX Europe 600 Index climbing 0.01% and the FTSE 100 Index rising 0.88% from the previous close.

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