Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during morning trading on January 06, 2026 in New York City.<\/p>\n
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Stock futures traded quietly on Sunday evening as investors braced for a pivotal week that could help set the tone for markets early in the new year.<\/p>\n
Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average dipped 40 points. S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq-100 futures both inched down 0.1%.<\/p>\n
The market is coming off fresh record highs. The S&P 500 and the 30-stock Dow both finished Friday’s session at new peaks, capping a winning week for the major benchmarks. The S&P 500 rose more than 1% on the week, while the Dow and the Nasdaq Composite jumped 2.3% and 1.9%, respectively.<\/p>\n
Traders are preparing for the kickoff of earnings season, with major Wall Street banks set to report results in the days ahead. JPMorgan Chase<\/a>, Bank of America<\/a>, Morgan Stanley<\/a> and Goldman Sachs<\/a> are all scheduled to release quarterly numbers, offering investors fresh insight into the health of consumer spending, dealmaking activity and trading revenues.<\/p>\n Also on the calendar is the latest inflation reading, due out Tuesday, which has taken on added significance following Friday’s December jobs report.<\/a> That release showed that the labor market continues to cool but remains resilient enough to keep the economy on a stable footing.<\/p>\n The figures reinforced expectations that the Federal Reserve is likely to hold off on interest rate cuts for now, even as economic momentum shows signs of cooling.<\/p>\n “Risk-on sentiment remains intact for now in portfolios, but the data effectively removes any chance of a January Fed rate cut,” said Lara Castleton, U.S. head of portfolio construction and strategy at Janus Henderson Investors.<\/p>\n Investors are also keeping a close eye on geopolitical risks. President Donald Trump is weighing options to intervene in Iran, according to multiple reports on Sunday.<\/a> He also warned Cuba<\/a> that no more Venezuelan oil or money will be flowing into the island unless Cuban leaders strike a deal with Washington. And on Friday,\u00a0Trump threatened to take action on Greenland “whether they like it or not,”<\/a> as he pushes to acquire the Danish territory for the U.S.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during morning trading on January 06, 2026…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":509715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[18109,7789,24455,133,64,81,7074,3346,16209,135,13201,134,67,132,68,3642],"class_list":{"0":"post-509714","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-bank-of-america-corp","9":"tag-breaking-news-investing","10":"tag-breaking-news-major","11":"tag-breaking-news-markets","12":"tag-business","13":"tag-business-news","14":"tag-goldman-sachs-group-inc","15":"tag-investment-strategy","16":"tag-jpmorgan-chase-co","17":"tag-markets","18":"tag-morgan-stanley","19":"tag-stock-markets","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-wall-street"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115879477496783028","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509714","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=509714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}