U.S. stock-index futures gained late Sunday, after Wall Street last week sank to is longest losing streak since 1932.
Dow Jones Industrial Average futures
YM00,
+0.85%
were recently up about 250 points, or 0.8%, while S&P 500 futures
ES00,
+1.05%
and Nasdaq-100 futures
NQ00,
+1.27%
posted gains above 1% Crude prices
CL.1,
+0.56%,
meanwhile, gained slightly in electronic trading.
Last week, the three major indexes declined for the eighth straight week, the longest such streak since April 1932, according to Dow Jones Market Data.
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On Friday, the Dow
DJIA,
+0.03%
edged up 8.77 points, or less than 0.1%, to close at 31,261.90, while the S&P 500
SPX,
+0.01%
added less than 1 point to finish nearly flat at 3,901.36, after earlier trading in bear-market territory. The Nasdaq Composite
COMP,
-0.30%
fell 33.88 points, or 0.3%, to end at 11,354.62, its lowest close since Nov. 3, 2020.
For the week, the Dow fell 2.9%, the S&P 500 dropped 3.1% and the Nasdaq slid 3.8%.
Investors are looking ahead to a number of major earnings reports this week, including Zoom Video Communications Inc.
ZM,
-1.32%,
Nvidia Corp.
NVDA,
-2.51%,
Costco Wholesale Corp.
COST,
-1.54%
and Macy’s Inc.
M,
-6.20%.
