S&P 500 Futures Fall In Premarket Trading; Cincinnati Financial, WW Grainger Lag

Dow Jones04-02 19:30

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With U.S. stock markets set to open in two hours, Globalstar Inc. $(GSAT)$ was up 13.8% in pre-market trading, and Venture Global Inc. $(VG)$ was up 7.3%.

Aptiv PLC (APTV), Lennar Corp. Cl B $(LEN.B)$, and Cenovus Energy Inc. $(CVE)$ were all posting gains of at least 4%. In early trading, Cincinnati Financial Corp. $(CINF)$ and W.W. Grainger Inc. $(GWW)$ had posted declines, falling 36.6% and 18.5%, respectively.

Meanwhile S&P 500 futures were down 1.43%, with futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average falling 1.24%. The Cboe Volatility Index futures were down 2.48%.

In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were up 8.02%, and gold futures were down 3.37%. Bitcoin was down 2.51% to $66,431.

The 10-Year Treasury yield climbed to 4.379%.

In the previous regular trading session, the S&P 500 and the Dow were up 0.72% and 0.48%, respectively. Stocks in Asia were down overnight, with Japan's NIKKEI 225 Index down 2.38% and China's Shanghai Composite Index falling 0.74%.

In afternoon trading, stocks in Europe are down, with the STOXX Europe 600 Index dropping 1.17% and the FTSE 100 Index dropping 0.19% from the previous close.

U.S. stock markets open for trading at 9:30 a.m. ET.

Data source: Dow Jones Market Data, FactSet. Data compiled April 02, 2026.

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