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Futures Highlights

Today's futures market saw mixed performance with energy and precious metals trending lower while equity indices posted modest gains.

• 🔴 Crude Oil: 70.28 (Change: -0.42 | -0.59%)

• 🟢 Natural Gas: 4.0290 (Change: +0.0470 | +1.18%)

• 🔴 Gold: 2943.70 (Change: -19.50 | -0.66%)

• 🟢 Dow: 43595.00 (Change: +60.00 | +0.14%)

• 🟢 S&P 500: 6003.50 (Change: +2.75 | +0.05%)

• 🟢 Nasdaq 100: 21422.25 (Change: +2.00 | +0.01%)

• 🔴 Russell 2000: 2183.70 (Change: -0.70 | -0.03%)

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Forex & Bonds Update

Foreign exchange and bond markets remained steady, with minor gains in currency pairs and slight declines in treasury yields.

• 🟢 EUR/USD: 1.0498 (Change: +0.0030 | +0.29%)

• 🟢 USD/JPY: 149.73 (Change: +0.03 | +0.02%)

• 🟢 GBP/USD: 1.2660 (Change: +0.0037 | +0.29%)

• 🔴 BTC/USD: 89032.90 (Change: -2827.20 | -3.08%)

• 🔴 5-Year Treasury: 4.23 (Change: -0.028 | -0.66%)

• 🔴 10-Year Treasury: 4.393 (Change: -0.027 | -0.61%)

• 🔴 30-Year Treasury: 4.648 (Change: -0.021 | -0.45%)

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Major News Stocks

The equity segment experienced a mixed day, with modest winners leading a cluster of stocks posting losses, including some significant declines.

• 🟢 LLY: +0.88%

• 🟢 MIDD: +0.65%

• 🟢 AAPL: +0.63%

• 🟢 UL: +0.34%

• 🔴 GOOG: -0.21%

• 🔴 DNUT: -0.22%

• 🔴 GOOGL: -0.23%

• 🔴 HD: -0.75%

• 🔴 MSFT: -1.03%

• 🔴 AMZN: -1.79%

• 🔴 TSLA: -2.15%

• 🔴 BNKU: -2.16%

• 🔴 META: -2.26%

• 🔴 NVDA: -3.09%

• 🔴 BABA: -10.23%

• 🔴 PLTR: -10.53%

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