{"id":36502,"date":"2025-07-03T23:02:25","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T23:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/36502\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T23:02:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T23:02:25","slug":"5-things-to-know-before-the-stock-market-opens-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/36502\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Things to Know Before the Stock Market Opens"},"content":{"rendered":"

U.S. stock futures are little changed ahead of today’s shortened trading session and tomorrow’s Independence Day holiday; the U.S. jobs report is expected to show hiring slowed in June; the House prepares for a final vote on President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill”; shares of Synopsys (SNPS<\/a>) and Cadence Software (CDNS<\/a>) are surging in premarket trading as the U.S. drops restrictions on chip-design software exports to China; and shares of Datadog (DDOG<\/a>) are jumping on news of the firm’s forthcoming addition to the S&P 500. Here’s what investors need to know today.\n<\/p>\n

1. US Stock Futures Little Changed Ahead of Shortened Session <\/p>\n

U.S. stock futures are little changed ahead of today’s release of the June employment report. Stock markets will close at 1 p.m. ET and bond markets will end at 2 p.m. ET before tomorrow’s\u00a0closures for the Independence Day holiday<\/a>.\u00a0S&P 500 and Nasdaq<\/a>\u00a0futures are essentially flat after both indexes closed at new record highs<\/a> yesterday. Dow Jones Industrial Average<\/a>\u00a0futures also are little changed.\u00a0Bitcoin\u00a0(BTCUSD<\/a>) is little changed at just below $110,000. The 10-year Treasury yield and oil futures are lower. Gold futures are near flat.\n<\/p>\n

2. US Jobs Report Expected to Show Hiring Slowed in June <\/p>\n

U.S. employers are expected to have added 110,000 jobs in June<\/a>, a slowdown in job creation from 139,000 in May, when that data is released at 8:30 a.m. ET today. Economists surveyed by The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires also forecast the unemployment rate will have ticked higher to 4.3%. The data follows Wednesday’s release of the private-sector payroll report<\/a> that showed employers cut 33,000 jobs in June while economists expected payrolls to increase by 100,000 jobs.\n<\/p>\n

3. House Set for Final Vote on ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ <\/p>\n

The U.S. House of Representatives narrowly advanced<\/a> President Donald Trump’s tax-and-spending bill early Thursday, clearing a key hurdle that allows the chamber to start a final vote on his signature legislation before his self-imposed July 4 deadline. Several Republican holdouts finally relented and advanced Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill”<\/a>\u2014which includes an extension of his 2017 tax cuts and reduces funding for Medicaid<\/a>\u2014in a 219-213 vote. On Tuesday, the Senate voted 50-50 on the bill, with Vice President JD Vance casting\u00a0the tiebreaking vote<\/a>\u00a0in favor to send it to the House.\n<\/p>\n

4. US Lifts Restrictions on Chip-Design Software to China <\/p>\n

The U.S. has removed some export restrictions on chip-design software to China, according to chip-design software maker Synopsys (SNPS<\/a>). The company said that it received government notice on Wednesday that the\u00a0restrictions set in late May<\/a>\u00a0have now been rescinded. “Synopsys is working to restore access to the recently restricted products in China,” it said. Shares of Synopsys are rising 5% in premarket trading, while those of Cadence Software (CDNS<\/a>), which reportedly also is working to restore access to affected customers, are up about 6%.\n<\/p>\n

5. Datadog Stock Surges on News of S&P 500 Inclusion <\/p>\n

Shares of Datadog (DDOG<\/a>) are surging 9% in premarket trading after S&P Global announced that the software firm would join the S&P 500 on July 9. A spot in the index opened following Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s (HPE<\/a>) completed acquisition of fellow index component Juniper Networks (JNPR<\/a>). Shares of Robinhood Markets (HOOD<\/a>) are nearly 2% lower after they\u00a0surged by more than 6%<\/a>\u00a0yesterday on speculation the trading platform would replace Juniper Networks in the index.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. stock futures are little changed ahead of today’s shortened trading session and tomorrow’s Independence Day holiday; the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":36503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[64,135,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-36502","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-markets","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-markets","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114791798727408902","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}