U.S. futures for the S&P 500 were down 0.4% and futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average declined 0.5%. Changes in futures do not necessarily predict movements after the opening bell.
In Europe, the Stoxx Europe 600 dropped 0.5% in morning trading. Accelleron Industries rose 15.4% and Zalando climbed 7.9%. On the other hand, Andritz slipped 4.4%, and Swiss Life Holding lost 4.2%. The FTSE 100 lost 0.6%. Other stocks in Europe were down as France's CAC 40 decreased 0.6% and Germany's DAX dropped 0.4%.
The Wall Street Journal Dollar Index climbed 0.1% to 95.93.
In commodities, Brent crude rose 5.5% to $97.06 a barrel, and WTI crude gained 4.9% to $91.54 a barrel. The European benchmark price for natural gas, the Dutch futures contract TTF, was up 4.6% to 52.31 euros a megawatt hour.
The German 10-year Bund yield held steady at 2.939%, and the yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury was flat at 4.228%. Bond prices and yields move in opposite directions.
Stocks in Asia were down as Japan's Nikkei 225 index fell 1%, and Hong Kong's Hang Seng fell 0.7%. China's benchmark Shanghai Composite declined 0.1%.
-This article was automatically generated by MarketWatch.
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