Premarket trading was mixed this morning in a low-volume trading holiday week on Wall Street, according to the Associated Press. Futures for the S&P 500 were virtually unchanged before the bell, while futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 0.1%. The tech-heavy Nasdaq rose nearly 0.3%.
Trading has been subdued in the last trading week of the year. The S&P 500 is coming off its eighth straight winning week and is hovering just below its all-time high set in January of 2022.
In other trading today, U.S. benchmark crude oil shed $1.03 to $73.04 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. It declined by $1.46 on Wednesday. Brent crude, the international standard, gave up 96 cents to $78.58 per barrel.
The U.S. dollar ticked down to 140.82 Japanese yen from 141.84 yen.
