U.S. stock futures rose Tuesday, as the market tried to claw back some of Monday’s steep declines that pushed the S&P 500 back into bear market territory. Traders also looked ahead to a key monetary policy announcement from the Federal Reserve later in the week.
Dow Jones Industrial Average futures rose 130 points, or 0.45%. S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 futures climbed 0.6% and 1%, respectively.
Shares of Oracle jumped 12% in premarket trading after the software company reported an earnings beat boosted by a “major increase in demand” in its infrastructure cloud business.
The moves came after an intense sell-off Monday. The S&P 500 slumped 3.9% to its lowest level since March 2021, closing more than 21% below its January record. Monday’s close marked bear market for the S&P 500 since March 2020. During that last bear market, the S&P 500 lost 33.9% before recovering, according to data compiled by S&P Dow Jones Indices. The data also showed that bear markets on average last more than 18 months.
Meanwhile, the Dow tumbled 2.8%, putting it roughly 17% off its record high. The Nasdaq Composite dropped nearly 4.7% and is now more than 33% off its November record.
Those losses came as expectations grow for the Fed to hike rates more than initially anticipated. CNBC’s Steve Liesman reported Monday that theFed will “likely” consider a 75-basis-point increase, which is greater than the 50-basis-point hike many traders had come to expect. TheWall Street Journal reported the story first.
Traders now see a more than 90% chance of a 75-basis-point rate hike at this week’s Fed meeting, which concludes Wednesday, according to the CME Group’s FedWatchtool that measures pricing in the fed funds futures markets.
That change in Fed policy expectations sent rates surging, with the 10-year rate briefly topping 3.4%on Monday. The benchmark rate eased back to about 3.32% on Tuesday.
“The move in the 10-year Treasury yield toward 3.5% shows the market’s fear that the Fed may fall further behind the curve is increasing,” wrote UBS strategists led by Mark Haefele. “In turn, this will give the Fed less room to ‘declare victory’ and ease off on rate hikes. As a result, the risks of a Fed-induced recession have increased, in our view, and the chances of a recession in the next six months have risen.”
Investors digested another important inflation reading of May’s producer price index on Tuesday. It showed wholesale prices rise 10.8% and hover near a record pace.