by Calculated Risk on 8/11/2024 06:49:00 PM

Weekend:
• Schedule for Week of August 11, 2024

Monday:
• No major economic releases scheduled.

From CNBC: Pre-Market Data and Bloomberg futures S&P 500 are down 10 and DOW futures are down 66 (fair value).

Oil prices were up over the last week with WTI futures at $76.84 per barrel and Brent at $79.66 per barrel. A year ago, WTI was at $83, and Brent was at $88 - so WTI oil prices are down about 7% year-over-year.

Here is a graph from Gasbuddy.com for nationwide gasoline prices. Nationally prices are at $3.41 per gallon. A year ago, prices were at $3.82 per gallon, so gasoline prices are down $0.41 year-over-year.