S&P 500 Futures Steady in Premarket Trading; Workday, Roivant Sciences Lead

With U.S. stock markets set to open in two hours, Workday Inc. Cl A (WDAY) was up 9.1% in pre-market trading, and Roivant Sciences Ltd. (ROIV) was up 4.7%.

Zillow Group Inc. Cl A (ZG), Heico Corp. Cl A (HEI.A), and Aramark (ARMK) were all posting gains of at least 2%. In early trading, Duolingo Inc. (DUOL) and Opendoor Technologies Inc. (OPEN) had posted declines, falling 4.9% and 3.8%, respectively.

Meanwhile S&P 500 futures were down 0.04%, with futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average rising 0.05%. The Cboe Volatility Index futures were up 16.51%.

In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were down 0.70%, while gold futures were down 0.67%. was down 0.39% to $116,365.

The 10-Year Treasury yield slipped to 4.016%.

In the previous regular trading session, the and the were down 0.13% and 0.27%, respectively. Stocks in Asia were mixed overnight, with Japan’s NIKKEI 225 Index down 0.25% and China’s Shanghai Composite Index up 0.37%.

In afternoon trading, stocks in Europe are mixed, with the STOXX Europe 600 Index dropping 0.05% and the FTSE 100 Index rising 0.26% from the previous close.

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