LONDON: U.S. stock futures moved slightly lower on Thursday, with investors waiting for a stream of earnings from Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and other prominent names before jumping in.
Also ahead are comments from key Federal Reserve members and manufacturing data.
Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average YMM5, -0.22% slipped 33 points, or 0.2%, to 17,989, while those for the S&P 500 index ESM5, -0.29% lost 3.80 points to 2,096.00. Futures for the Nasdaq 100 index NQM5, -0.18% fell 4.25 points to 4,417.50.
The small losses marked a slight pullback from Wednesday’s advances, when better-than-expected earnings and a jump in oil prices sent the benchmarks close to record closing levels. The S&P 500 SXP, -1.15% ended just 0.5% shy of its all-time close of 2117.39 hit Monday, March 2, while the Dow average DJIA, +0.42% missed its record by 1%.
