U.S. Stock Futures are slightly lower ahead of the Wall Street open after another choppy session on Thursday. Stocks have been under pressure at the tail end of the week as tariff headlines continues to create uncertainty for markets. Investor focus turns to personal income and outlays data today with expectations of the headline PCE price index reading rising 0.3% in February and 2.5% from 12 months earlier.

Snapshot (as of 7 AM ET)

• Oil (/CL) – Oil prices are flat just under $70.
• Gold (/GC) – Gold is up three-quarters of a percent to $31K.
• Bitcoin (/BTC) – The cryptocurrency is down over 2% to the $85K level.
• VIX – The CBOE Volatility Index has risen to 19.
• U.S. Dollar (/DX) – The dollar is flat around 104.

Biggest Premarket Movers (Mark % Change as of 7 AM ET)

1. W.R. Berkley (WRB): +7.12%
2. Super Micro Computer (SMCI): +2.04%
3. Tesla (TSLA): +1.05%

1. Lululemon (LULU): -11.44%
2. Dollar Tree (DLTR): -1.14%
3. Palantir (PLTR): -0.89%

Economic Data

• 8:30AM ET
• Personal Income/Outlays
• 10:00AM ET
• Consumer Sentiment
• 12:15PM ET
• Fed’s Barr Speaks
• 3:45PM ET
• Fed’s Bostic Speaks

Earnings

• Premarket: None
• Postmarket: None
• Premarket Monday: None
• Postmarket Monday: PRGS, PVH

Upgrades/Downgrades

• Jefferies upgrades Applied Materials (AMAT) to Buy from Hold
• BMO Capital upgrades Check Point (CHKP) to Outperform from Market Perform
• Barclays upgrades Ferrari (RACE) to Overweight from Equal Weight
• Jefferies downgrades KLA Corp. (KLAC) to Hold from Buy
• Raymond James downgrades Lululemon (LULU) to Market Perform from Outperform
• BofA downgrades Schneider National (SNDR) to Neutral from Buy

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