
U.S. stocks appear set for a negative opening on Friday as investors exercise caution following an AI selloff, while a new report stated that layoffs in October were the highest for the month in 22 years.
Wall Street is now headed for its worst week in over a month, analysts at Schwab noted, while adding that investors will await the preliminary consumer sentiment report for November from the University of Michigan.
"The speculative and momentum sentiment that helped lift many tech shares—including some with no profits—appears to be fading a bit," said Nathan Peterson, director of derivatives analysis at the Schwab Center for Financial Research.
While Dow Jones futures edged lower by 0.05% at the time of writing, the S&P 500 futures declined 0.06%, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100’s futures declined 0.09%. Futures of the Russell 2000 index fell 0.02%.
Meanwhile, the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY) was down by 0.04% at the time of writing, Invesco QQQ Trust (QQQ) declined 0.08% on Friday morning, and SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF Trust (DIA) declined 0.03%. Retail sentiment around the S&P 500 ETF on Stocktwits was in the ‘bearish’ territory.
Asian markets ended Friday’s trading session on a positive note, with the KOSPI declining the most at 1.84%, followed by the Nikkei 225 at 1.48%, and the Hang Seng index at 0.96%.
The TWSE Capitalization Weighted Stock index declined 0.9%, while the Shanghai Composite fell 0.26%.
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