Merchants work on the ground on the New York Inventory Trade on Sept. 17, 2025.
Brendan McDermid | Reuters
Inventory futures have been little modified on Sunday night time, as a brand new month of buying and selling begins.
S&P 500 futures ticked greater by 0.1% together with Nasdaq-100 futures. Dow Jones Industrial Common futures superior 16 factors, or lower than 0.1%.
Wall Road is coming off a successful session that added to the benchmark’s October positive factors. The S&P 500 and Dow industrials climbed 2.3% and a pair of.5%, respectively, for the month. The Nasdaq Composite outperformed, gaining 4.7%.
These positive factors have been pushed partially by continued momentum within the synthetic intelligence commerce in addition to indicators of easing commerce tensions between the U.S. and China.
Greater than 300 S&P 500 corporations have posted third-quarter outcomes so far. Of these, over 80% have overwhelmed expectations, in line with FactSet. Wall Road will get one other 100-plus corporations reporting this week, together with AI-related names Palantir and AMD.
“Basically, the U.S. earnings image stays sturdy and supported by these 3 elements: AI spending visibility stays sturdy and Amazon’s sturdy 3Q25 report is the most recent proof of this; financials are driving innovation by way of blockchain; the Fed is dovish and decreasing rates of interest; and QT (quantitative tightening) is ending Dec 1,” wrote Tom Lee, head of analysis at Fundstrat.
Wall Road might get a seasonality increase this month. Knowledge from the Inventory Dealer’s Almanac reveals the S&P 500 averages a 1.8% acquire in November, making it the strongest month traditionally for the benchmark.
Buyers additionally saved an eye fixed on Washington, because the U.S. authorities stays shut down. The stoppage has delayed a number of key financial knowledge releases, together with the month-to-month jobs report.
On high of that, the Supreme Court docket is anticipated to hear oral arguments on legality of the Trump administration’s tariffs.