Stock market today: Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq futures climb after Dow's record-setting rally

Dow Jones Industrial Average futures (YM=F) held steady, portion futures attached to the S&P 500 climbed 0.1%. (ES=F) Nasdaq 100 futures (NQ=F) gained 0.3%.

The muted futures enactment followed a beardown regular-session show that pushed the Dow (^DJI) to a grounds close. During Monday’s session, the Dow jumped astir 600 points, oregon astir 1.2%. The S&P 500 (^GSPC) roseate astir 0.6%, portion the Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) added astir 0.7%, led by gains successful large-cap maturation names including Tesla (TSLA) and Amazon (AMZN).

Markets appeared to construe the developments little arsenic a root of planetary instability and much arsenic a imaginable catalyst for US firm opportunity, peculiarly successful vigor and defense. The absorption underscored investors’ continued appetite for hazard arsenic the caller twelvemonth gets underway.

Energy stocks outperformed aft the White House confirmed that the Trump medication has held discussions with aggregate US lipid companies astir Venezuela’s vigor sector, though details were limited. Chevron (CVX), the lone large US lipid shaper presently operating successful Venezuela, surged 5.1%. Exxon Mobil (XOM) and Halliburton (HAL) besides moved higher by 2.2% and 7.8% respectively, with gains of 0.2% and 0.4% made after-hours.

As stocks crossed the committee are seeing belter starts to the year, AI companies are acceptable to instrumentality capitalist absorption with the CES marquee tech amusement successful Las Vegas. That kicked disconnected with Nvidia (NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang's address, with speeches from AMD (AMD), Intel (INTC) and Qualcomm (QCOM) owed earlier the lawsuit wraps aboriginal this week.

Commodities reflected a much cautious undercurrent. Gold (GC=F) futures posted their strongest regular summation since October arsenic immoderate investors sought extortion from volatility.

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