U.S. stock futures were steady in overnight trading on Sunday as investors readied for the final trading days of August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dow futures rose just 11 points. S&P 500 futures were little changed and Nasdaq 100 futures traded around the flatline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Stocks could stay range-bound until the release of August\u2019s jobs report<\/a> on Friday. Economists polled by Dow Jones expect 750,000 jobs were created in August and the unemployment rate fell to 5.2%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Monday and Tuesday mark the last two trading days of August. Thus far, the S&P 500 is up 2.6% in August. The Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Nasdaq Composite rose 1.5% and 3.1% this month, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite closed at all-time highs<\/a> on Friday as investors breathed a sigh of relief after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell signaled<\/a> bond tapering could start this year, but the central bank is in no rush to hike interest rates. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" U.S. stock futures were steady in overnight trading on Sunday as investors readied for the final trading days of August. Dow futures rose just 11 points. S&P 500 futures were …<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2490,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[38,34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamcdev.cqit.sg\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2643"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamcdev.cqit.sg\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamcdev.cqit.sg\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamcdev.cqit.sg\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamcdev.cqit.sg\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pamcdev.cqit.sg\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3543,"href":"https:\/\/pamcdev.cqit.sg\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2643\/revisions\/3543"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamcdev.cqit.sg\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamcdev.cqit.sg\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamcdev.cqit.sg\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamcdev.cqit.sg\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}