{"id":80,"date":"2009-10-15T16:24:36","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T10:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.niftylivecharts.com\/blog\/?p=80"},"modified":"2009-10-15T16:24:45","modified_gmt":"2009-10-15T10:54:45","slug":"u-s-stocks-set-for-a-mild-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.niftylivecharts.com\/blog\/u-s-stocks-set-for-a-mild-start\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S stocks set for a mild start."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Investors seems to be relieved after pushing the dow above the 10,000 mark and now are heading their focus towards bank earning\u00a0 resulting in flat open of U.S stocks on Thursday.<br \/>\nET, S&amp;P 500, Nasdaq-100 and Dow Jones industrial average futures were found little changed<br \/>\nFutures measure current index values against their perceived future performance and offer an indication of how markets be open when trading will begin.<br \/>\nWall Street rallied Wednesday on earnings optimism. For the first time in a year Dow\u00a0 Jones lifted to close above 10,000<br \/>\nEarnings: The heavy rain of the earnings continues, with Goldman Sachs (GS, Fortune 500) and Citigroup (C, Fortune 500) both have posted their quarterly results before the opening bell.<br \/>\nJPMorgan Chase (JPM, Fortune 500) reported upbeat results on Wednesday, helping to trigger the market rally.<br \/>\nEconomy: The Consumer Price Index, a key inflation gauge, is due out . A weekly report on jobless claims will also come out then.<br \/>\nWorld markets:The spectacular upbeat seen in dow jones lifted the market worldwide. . In Asia, the Nikkei surged 1.8%. 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href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/data\/premarket\/index.html\">futures<\/a> were found little changed<\/p>\n<p>Futures measure current index values against their perceived future performance and offer an indication of how markets be open when trading will begin.<\/p>\n<p>Wall Street rallied Wednesday on earnings optimism. For the first time in a year Dow<span> <\/span>Jones lifted to close above 10,000<\/p>\n<p><strong>Earnings<\/strong>: The heavy rain of the earnings continues, with Goldman Sachs (<a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/quote\/quote.html?symb=GS&amp;source=story_quote_link\">GS<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/magazines\/fortune\/fortune500\/2009\/snapshots\/10777.html?source=story_f500_link\">Fortune 500<\/a>) and Citigroup (<a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/quote\/quote.html?symb=C&amp;source=story_quote_link\">C<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/magazines\/fortune\/fortune500\/2009\/snapshots\/2927.html?source=story_f500_link\">Fortune 500<\/a>) both have posted their quarterly results before the opening bell.<\/p>\n<p>JPMorgan Chase (<a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/quote\/quote.html?symb=JPM&amp;source=story_quote_link\">JPM<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/magazines\/fortune\/fortune500\/2009\/snapshots\/2608.html?source=story_f500_link\">Fortune 500<\/a>) reported upbeat results on Wednesday, helping to trigger the market rally.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Economy:<\/strong> The Consumer Price Index, a key inflation gauge, is due out . A weekly report on jobless claims will also come out then.<\/p>\n<p><strong>World markets:<\/strong>The spectacular upbeat seen in dow jones lifted the market worldwide. . In Asia, the Nikkei surged 1.8%. 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ET, S&amp;P 500, Nasdaq-100 and Dow Jones industrial average futures were found little changed Futures measure current index values against their perceived future performance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[372,377,379,376,371,370,378,375,369,374,373],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-general","tag-372","tag-bank-earnings-in-focus","tag-change-in-futures-of-dow-jones","tag-deluge-of-earnings-continues","tag-dow-jones-closes-above-10","tag-flat-open-of-u-s-stocks-on-thursday","tag-future-drift-after-dow-closes-above-10","tag-investors-focus-on-bank-earnings","tag-mild-start-for-u-s-stock-market","tag-upbeat-lifted-the-market-worlwide","tag-upbeat-seen-in-dow-jones","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.niftylivecharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.niftylivecharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.niftylivecharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.niftylivecharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.niftylivecharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.niftylivecharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.niftylivecharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.niftylivecharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.niftylivecharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}