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By Oliver Gray
Investing.com – U.S. stock futures were trading lower during Sunday’s evening deals ahead of Monday’s public holiday, after major benchmark averages finished the previous week in a mixed fashion as investors digested hotter than expected data as well as a deluge of earnings results.
By 6:40pm ET (11:40pm GMT) were 0.1% lower while and declined 0.2% apiece.
Ahead in the week, market participants will be looking towards preliminary and PMIs, , , and data as well as and Michigan consumer and . Meanwhile, speeches from , , and will also be closely monitored.
On the earnings front, companies including Walmart Inc (NYSE:), Home Depot Inc (NYSE:), Medtronic (NYSE:) and Palo Alto Networks Inc (NASDAQ:) are set to report later in the week.
During Friday’s trade, the added 129.8 points or 0.4% to 33,826.7, the fell 11.3 points or 0.3% to 4,079.1 and the lost 68.6 points or 0.6% to 11,787.3. For the week, the Dow fell 0.2%, the S&P 500 lost 0.4% and the Nasdaq added 0.3%.
On the bond markets, rates were at 6-week highs of 3.822%.