by Calculated Risk on 10/13/2019 08:04:00 PM

Weekend:
• Schedule for Week of October 13, 2019

Monday:
• Columbus Day Holiday: Banks will be closed in observance of Columbus Day. The stock market will be open. No economic releases are scheduled.

From CNBC: Pre-Market Data and Bloomberg futures: S&P 500 are up 10 and DOW futures are up 107 (fair value).

Oil prices were up over the last week with WTI futures at $54.79 per barrel and Brent at $60.58 barrel.  A year ago, WTI was at $72, and Brent was at $81 - so oil prices are down about 25% year-over-year.

Here is a graph from Gasbuddy.com for nationwide gasoline prices. Nationally prices are at $2.63 per gallon. A year ago prices were at $2.89 per gallon, so gasoline prices are down 26 cents year-over-year.