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US-China trade truce euphoria is giving way to worry over economic slowdown in the wait for the latest US consumer inflation report
Stock futures were mixed Tuesday after kicking off the week with massive gains fueled by a de-escalation in the trade spat between the U.S. and China.
Stock market futures fell early Tuesday ahead of the release of the April consumer price index (CPI) report, which is expected to show the first impact of President Donald Trump's tariffs on inflation. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (Dow) Futures fell 247 points, or 0.5%. The S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq-100 futures dipped 0.2% each.
Stocks are soaring Monday as investors cheer weekend talks that saw China and the U.S. agree to slash tariffs on each other for at least 90 days. Data indicate that institutions were already lagging behind the stock-market bounce that had seen the S&P 500 take back much of its post-April 2 selloff,
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US stock futures are trading marginally in the red after a strong rally on Monday, marking their best single-day gain since April 9, which was the day US President Donald Trump announced a pause to his reciprocal tariff program for 90 days.
Stocks looked set for losses on Tuesday as investors locked in their gains from a stellar trading session. Signs of thawing trade tensions between the U.S. and China sparked an eye-popping rally Monday.
Monthly data for the consumer price index showed that prices rose 0.2% in April, which is what analysts on Wall Street had forecasted. That puts CPI at 2.3% year-over-year and core CPI at 2.8%. Bullish stock-index futures traders appeared pleased with the data.
FIIs added 78,532 long contracts and covered 29,899 shorts, boosting their net long position by 108,431 contracts, taking the long-short ratio up from 1.88 to 1.94.