Earnings: Adidas ( ADDYY), Avon Products ( AVP), Chesapeake Energy ( CHK), Hyatt Hotels ( H) and Time ( TIME) are some of the key companies releasing earnings before the opening bell. Meanwhile, European and Asian markets are showing mixed results.īefore the Bell newsletter: Key market news. They're slipping a tad, but it's nothing dramatic. stock futures are not looking too poorly right now. The Dow Jones industrial average and Nasdaq have also sustained a string of losses for the last few years. The S&P 500 fell on Wednesday for the seventh day in a row, hitting a four-month low. 'As his odds have risen over the last few days, the market has sold off.' 'A Trump presidency strikes fear in a large percentage of investors,' according to a report from Bespoke Investment Group. Veteran market observers blame politics for the fear on Wall Street, pointing to new polls that suggest Donald Trump's chances of winning the White House have risen. The market's key volatility gauge, the VIX ( VIX), has crept up to the highest levels since the aftermath of the Brexit shock in June.

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