Stock futures fall as Wall Street eyes busy earnings week: Live updates

Singapore exports Data from the Singapore government showed a decline for the twelfth consecutive month in September.

Singapore’s non-oil domestic exports fell 13.2% last month, after a 22.5% contraction in August, with electronics and non-electronics exports falling.

The decline was mainly due to lower exports to Taiwan, Indonesia and Malaysia, but NODX to China, Hong Kong and the US rose.

The Singapore dollar fell slightly against the US dollar, falling 0.12% to $1.3687, while the Straits Times Index rose 0.19%.

– Shreyashi Sanyal

Consumer price inflation in New Zealand reached its lowest level in two years in the third quarter.

Consumer prices rose 5.6% from a year ago, slower than the 6% increase in the second quarter, according to European Central Bank data. Statistics New Zealand Data published on Tuesday. The figure remains well above the central bank’s target range of 1% to 3% as prices for everything from food to housing rise.

The New Zealand dollar fell 0.44% to $0.5903 as the data supported views that the Reserve Bank of New Zealand may not raise interest rates at its November meeting. Stock markets rose slightly, with the S&P/NZX 50 index up 0.07%.

The country elected former businessman Christopher Luxon as its next prime minister over the weekend.

– Shreyashi Sanyal

Nelson Peltz’s activist hedge fund Trian Fund Management has created a stake in insurance company Allstate, according to a report from Reuters. Allstate has suffered from the repercussions of various natural disasters, most recently the Maui wildfires in Hawaii.

The move could increase pressure on CEO Tom Wilson. The company recorded five quarters of losses.

Allstate shares jumped 3.8% Monday during after-hours trading.

— Hakyung Kim

Forget about the 0.5% drop in the price of gold on Monday.

What’s impressive is how well the price of gold has withstood rising interest rates and a bull market for the US dollar, Strategas Securities head of technical analysis Chris Fearon wrote to clients early Monday.

Last week, gold posted its fourth-best weekly advance over the past 10 years, Fearon wrote, and the precious metal proved remarkably resilient in the face of 10-year Treasury yields, which have jumped 4.5 percentage points since mid-2020, and inflation-adjusted yields have risen 3.75 percentage points. . point, federal funds rose 5.5 points and the dollar rose 20%. Meanwhile, gold has not changed since then. “It’s pretty impressive, all things considered,” Strategas said.

-Scott Schnepper, Michael Bloom

US stock futures opened in the green on Monday night.

Dow Jones Industrial Average futures rose 35 points, or 0.1%. Futures contracts tied to the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 rose 0.1% and 0.06%, respectively.

— Hakyung Kim