U.S. futures for the S&P 500 were up 0.2% and futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 0.3%. Changes in futures do not necessarily predict movements after the opening bell.
In Europe, the Stoxx Europe 600 gained 0.2% in morning trading. Zealand Pharma rose 14.1% and Loomis added 6.8%. On the other hand, Davide Campari-Milano dropped 9.9%, and Lanxess lost 9.5%. The FTSE 100 lost 0.3%. Other stocks in Europe were up as France's CAC 40 increased 0.4% and Germany's DAX rose 0.3%.
The Wall Street Journal Dollar Index fell 0.1% to 94.67.
In commodities, Brent crude fell 3% to $98.23 a barrel, and WTI crude fell 2.7% to $92.53 a barrel. The European benchmark price for natural gas, the Dutch futures contract TTF, was down 3.9% to 42.2 euros a megawatt hour.
The German 10-year Bund yield declined by 4 basis points to 2.97% from 3.005%, and the yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury fell by 2 basis points to 4.328% from 4.351%. Bond prices and yields move in opposite directions.
Stocks in Asia were up as Japan's Nikkei 225 index climbed 5.6%, and Hong Kong's Hang Seng climbed 1.7%. China's benchmark Shanghai Composite climbed 0.5%.
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