{"id":77332,"date":"2025-08-18T11:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T11:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/77332\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T11:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T11:48:10","slug":"dow-s-trump-ukraine-meeting-nvidia-intel-unitedhealth-and-more-movers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/77332\/","title":{"rendered":"Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq Set to Open Down; Trump Ukraine Meeting; Nvidia, Intel, UnitedHealth, and More Movers"},"content":{"rendered":"

U.S. stock futures were pointing lower as President Donald Trump prepares to meet<\/a> with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky and European leaders in Washington on Monday.<\/p>\n

A resolution in the Ukraine war could be a boon for markets if it reduces geopolitical uncertainty and buffers global energy supplies, creating a more stable environment for international trade after months of turmoil related to Trump\u2019s tariff policy.<\/p>\n

But a meeting between Trump and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin in Alaska Friday ended without a ceasefire agreement or other specific next steps being announced afterwards. Ukraine and Europe are nevertheless likely to be unhappy with reports that Trump may allow Russia to keep captured land.<\/p>\n

Other events that could affect markets this week include the Federal Reserve conference in Jackson Hole<\/a>, Wyoming at which traders are hoping Chair Jerome Powell will lay the groundwork for a series of interest-rate reductions in the months ahead. There\u2019s also a raft of earnings reports<\/a> from retailers including Walmart, Target, and Lowe\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Dow Jones Industrial Average futures fell 78 points, or 0.2%, S&P 500 futures were down 0.1%, and Nasdaq 100 futures slipped less than 0.1%.<\/p>\n

The yield on the 10-year Treasury retreated slightly to 4.297%, though it\u2019s still a little bit higher than it was a week ago. The two-year yield was lower at 3.748%\u2014it has slipped from about 3.8% a week ago and is down from almost 4% at the start of August as traders added to bets that Fed rate cuts are on the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. stock futures were pointing lower as President Donald Trump prepares to meet with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[64,63,99,171],"class_list":{"0":"post-77332","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-markets","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-markets"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}