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Dow futures climb 500 points on recovery hopes and vaccine news - MarketWatch
May 26, 2020 1 min, 40 secs
stock futures indicated a powerful open for Wall Street on Tuesday after a long holiday weekend, as investors seized on fresh coronavirus vaccine news and signs that global economies are slowly starting to crawl back from the pandemic shutdown.

Dow Jones Industrial Average futures.

climbed 500 points, or 2%, to 24,923, while S&P 500 futures.

rose 55.35 points, or 1.9%, to 3,008.25, while Nasdaq-100 futures.

gained 174.5 points, or 1.9%, to 9,580.

fell 8.96 points, or less than 0.1%, to end at 24,465.16, the S&P 500 index.

closed 6.94 points higher, or 0.2%, at 2,955.45, while the Nasdaq Composite.

traded 0.4% higher to 9,324.59, a gain of 39.71 points.

and Europe after news that a German airline will resume flights in July as travel restrictions are lifting in Spain and on data ahead of the weekend showing an increase in U.S.

The first phase of the placebo-controlled study will enroll 130 healthy adults; the first round of data from that study is expected in July.

Investors will get fresh data on Tuesday, with the Case-Shiller home price index due at 9 a.m.

Eastern Time and the Conference Board’s consumer confidence index at 10 a.m., along with data on new home sales in April from the Commerce Department.

Airline and travel-related stocks were trading higher in heavy premarket volume Tuesday.

dollar index

trading down 0.2%

Government bond yields were ticking higher, as the yield on the 10-year U.S

climbed about 3 basis points to 0.69%

European stocks were trading higher

Asian stocks closed higher overnight across the board, led by a 2.8% rally for the Nikkei 225 index

Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index

stock index futures made slight gains late Sunday amid rising tensions between the U.S

Eastern, Dow Jones Industrial Average futures , were up 70 points, or 0.3%, while S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq-100 futures tracked similarly

Stocks were little changed on Friday but for the week, the Dow climbed 3.3%, the S&P 500 advanced 3.2% and the Nasdaq Composite rose 3.4%

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