Markets on Wall Street pointed slightly lower early today, the Associated Press reports, with futures for the Dow Jones industrial average falling 0.3% before the bell and futures for the S&P 500 dipping around 0.2%.
Next week the government issues two big inflation reports: one that measures prices at the consumer level and another that analyzes wholesale inflation.
In equities trading, Docusign jumped 9.2% after it topped Wall Street’s fourth-quarter sales and profit expectations.
Retailer The Gap, which owns Old Navy and Banana Republic, climbed 9.1% after it more than doubled analysts’ per-share profit targets.
Costco skidded 3.9% in premarket trading today after its second-quarter sales fell short of Wall Street’s projections.
In energy trading, benchmark U.S. crude fell 63 cents to $78.30 per barrel. Brent crude, the international standard, lost 58 cents to $82.38 per barrel.
In currency trading, the U.S. dollar fell to 146.71 Japanese yen from 147.90 yen.
