Stocks on Wall Street were mixed in quiet premarket trading today, according to the Associated Press, as more retailers reported solid results. Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 leaned toward modest gains of less than 0.1%. The Nasdaq fell less than 0.1% before the bell, one day after hitting another record high.
Macy’s jumped 3.4% after it easily beat Wall Street’s profit projections.
Hardware store chain Lowe’s rose 2.3% after it beat analysts’ sales and profit targets.
In other trading, benchmark U.S. crude fell $1.26 to $78.04 per barrel. Brent crude, the international standard, declined the same $1.26 to $82.45 per barrel.
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The U.S. dollar inched up to 156.30 Japanese yen from 156.27 yen.
