U.S. stock-index futures surged on Thursday as equities rebounded after a drastic selloff in the previous session, while today's data releases, including US weekly jobless claims data and the final third-quarter GDP growth reading, reinforced markets' expectations of interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve next year.
Global Stocks:
Index/commodity | Last | Today's Change, points | Today's Change, % |
Nikkei | 33,140.47 | -535.47 | -1.59% |
Hang Seng | 16,621.13 | +7.32 | +0.04% |
Shanghai | 2,918.71 | +16.61 | +0.57% |
S&P/ASX | 7,504.10 | -33.80 | -0.45% |
FTSE | 7,683.34 | -32.34 | -0.42% |
CAC | 7,551.32 | -32.11 | -0.42% |
DAX | 16,672.08 | -60.97 | -0.36% |
Crude oil | $73.09 | -1.13 | -1.52% |
Gold | $2,052.10 | +4.40 | +0.21% |