Traders work at the New York Stock Exchange on June 26, 2026. <\/p>\n
NYSE<\/p>\n
U.S. stock futures ticked higher early Thursday, as investors awaited key employment data that could influence the Federal Reserve’s decision-making on monetary policy.<\/p>\n
Dow Jones Industrial Average futures<\/a> added 58 points, or 0.1%. S&P 500 futures<\/a> rose about 0.14%, while Nasdaq-100 futures<\/a> were 0.23% higher. <\/p>\n South Korea’s Kospi<\/a>\u00a0led losses in Asia,\u00a0falling 5.36% at the open, prompting the Korean Exchange to temporarily halt trading for five minutes to curb volatility. The small-cap Kosdaq dropped 3.55%. <\/p>\n Japan’s\u00a0Nikkei 225<\/a>\u00a0declined 0.70%, while the Topix inched up 0.13%. Australia’s benchmark S&P\/ASX 200<\/a> was down 0.59%. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index<\/a> rose 1.27%, while the CSI 300 was down more than 2%.<\/p>\n The moves come after the major U.S. averages ended Wednesday’s session lower, with the Dow<\/a> erasing a 423.46-point jump \u00adthat brought it to record highs to close just below the flatline. The S&P 500<\/a> and Nasdaq Composite<\/a> slid 0.2% and 0.7%, respectively, as investors pared positions in chipmakers.<\/p>\n The VanEck Semiconductor ETF (SMH)<\/a> lost 5.4%, with Micron Technology<\/a> and Sandisk<\/a> dropping more than 10% each. And while the sector decline weighed on the broader market, Ned Davis Research strategist Rob Anderson thinks the rotation out of semiconductors is healthy. <\/p>\n “One of the characteristics of the bull market has been rotation. The attribute has been on full display in 2026,” he wrote. “A passing of the baton to a non-commodity cyclical sector would be\u00a0further evidence that the stock market is entering the second half of the year in a position of strength\u00a0and that the bull market can continue deep into the second half of the year.”<\/p>\n Wall Street is looking ahead to the June jobs report, scheduled for release at 8:30 a.m. ET. Economists polled by Dow Jones expect the economy added 115,000 jobs last month. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Traders work at the New York Stock Exchange on June 26, 2026. NYSE U.S. stock futures ticked higher…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":738407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[116,28,122,63284,120,8070,317548,317551,7174,112,5239,63286,121,63285,117,8071,14457,317550,317547,114,13951,21,75826,317549],"class_list":["post-738406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-breaking-news-markets","tag-business","tag-business-news","tag-dow-jones-fut-sep25","tag-dow-jones-industrial-average","tag-hang-seng-index","tag-ishares-core-sp-500-etf","tag-ishares-core-sp-total-u-s-stock-market-etf","tag-kospi-index","tag-markets","tag-micron-technology-inc","tag-nasdaq-100-fut-sep25","tag-nasdaq-composite","tag-sp-500-fut-sep25","tag-sp-500-index","tag-sp-asx-200","tag-sandisk-corp","tag-spdr-portfolio-total-stock-market-etf","tag-state-street-spdr-portfolio-sp-500-etf","tag-stock-markets","tag-suppress-zephr","tag-united-states","tag-vaneck-semiconductor-etf","tag-vanguard-total-stock-market-index-fund-etf-shares"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/738407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}