Sunday Night Futures

Weekend:
• Schedule for Week of August 4, 2024

Monday:
• At 10:00 AM ET, the ISM Services Index for July.   The consensus is for a reading of 51.3, up from 48.8.

• At 2:00 PM, Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey on Bank Lending Practices (SLOOS) for July.

From CNBC: Pre-Market Data and Bloomberg futures S&P 500 are down 80 and DOW futures are down 356 (fair value).

Oil prices were lower over the last week with WTI futures at $73.53 per barrel and Brent at $76.92 per barrel. A year ago, WTI was at $83, and Brent was at $87 - so WTI oil prices are down about 11% year-over-year.

Here is a graph from Gasbuddy.com for nationwide gasoline prices. Nationally prices are at $3.44 per gallon. A year ago, prices were at $3.80 per gallon, so gasoline prices are down $0.36 year-over-year.