U.S. stock futures pointed to more losses early Friday after the major indexes suffered a tumble that sent them more than 10% below their record highs.
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As of 7 a.m. ET, Dow Jones Industrial Average futures indicated an opening loss of 500 points. S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 futures also pointed to a sharply lower open on Friday.
Futures were under pressure in part because investors kept adding to their bond-market exposure. The benchmark U.S. 10-year Treasury yield touched a fresh record low. It was last at 1.18%. Yields move inversely to prices.
Kevin Warsh, a former Federal Reserve governor, said Friday he expects global central banks to act soon in response to the coronavirus outbreak.
Caterpillar — a bellwether stock for global growth — was the worst performer among Dow stocks in the premarket, sliding more than 3%. Apple shares slid 2.9% while Chevron and Cisco Systems dipped more than 2% each.
New Zealand and Nigeria reported overnight their first coronavirus cases. South Korea, meanwhile, confirmed more than 500 new cases. China reported 327 additional cases.
The Dow plummeted nearly 1,200 points on Thursday — its biggest one-day point drop ever — as worries over the coronavirus possibly spreading sent stocks spiraling lower. The 30-stock average closed in correction territory along with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite.
The Dow had closed at a record high on Feb. 12. It only took the S&P 500 six days to fall from an all-time high into correction levels, marking the broad index’s fastest drop of that magnitude outside of a one-day crash.
“People have been so preconditioned to buy the dip and to always expect the market to recover that people can get smacked around with moves like this,” said Patrick Hennessy, head trader at IPS Strategic Capital. “No one knows how this thing ends.”
Thursday’s declines also put the Dow and S&P 500 down more than 10.5% each for the week, on pace for their worst weekly performance since 2008. Norwegian Cruise Line and American Airlines are among the worst-performing S&P 500 stocks this week, dropping more than 20% in that time. Las Vegas Sands has lost more than 10% week to date.
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