- Global Selloff From Dubai Shows Signs of Winding Down
- Dubai Stock Selloff May Bring Buying Opportunity
- Tiger Woods Out of Hospital After Accident
- Dubai Fallout Is a Correction, Not Another Crisis: El-Erian
- Dubai's Debt Woes Signal New Era for Creditors
- Get Paid Six Figures to Wear a T-Shirt?
- The World's Biggest Debtor Nations
- Five Tips for Buying a Foreclosed Home
- Slideshow: Fantasy Christmas Gifts 2009
- U.S. Stocks Fall on Dubai Worries
- Black Friday at Best Buy
- Strategists on Dubai: Avoid 'Rash Moves' Now
- Longer Lines, Fuller Carts This Black Friday
- Dubai Stock Market Fear Has 'Legs': Dennis Gartman
- Obama's Emission Reduction Pledge Paints Future for Autos
- Is Super Bowl Halftime Act Too Old?
- Surprising Options Trades in TiVo Shares
- EA Sports Hopes to Pump Up Sales Through Pop-Up Locations
MOST SHARED
- Tiger Woods Out of Hospital After Accident
- 8 Retailers that Gain During the Holidays
- Get Paid Six Figures to Wear a T-Shirt?
- Dubai Spooks Investors But May Bring Buying Opportunity
- Finding the Holiday's Best Buys
- Dubai Fallout Is a Correction, Not Another Crisis: El-Erian
- Longer Lines, Fuller Carts This Black Friday
- The Good Entrepreneur Winner
- Global Selloff From Dubai Woes Shows Signs of Winding Down
- Banks Play Down Dubai Exposure, Investors Still Wary
More Videos
Text Size 
Futures indicated a lower open for the U.S. stock market Monday, and the dollar and European stocks slipped after a strong performance last week following better-than-expected U.S. jobs data.
Wall Street is on a roll as we start a new week. The major averages have risen for four consecutive weeks, with the Dow closing at its highest since November after Friday's nearly 114-point gain, and the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq registering their highest closes since October.
No major economic statistics are on the calendar, though investors are already looking ahead to a two-day meeting of Federal Reserve policymakers that begins Tuesday. The Fed's latest interest rate pronouncement and economic statement come on Wednesday afternoon at approximately 2:15 pm New York time.
After the U.S. unemployment rate fell in July for the first time in 15 months, bets on the central bank raising interest rates from 0-0.25 percent by the year-end increased to as high as a 46 percent chance from 34 percent shortly before the data, according to Reuters.
Earnings season has slowed down, but a few familiar names will report quarterly numbers this morning, including satellite TV provider Dish Network [DISH
Loading...
()
] and food service company Sysco [SYY
Loading...
()
], not to be confused with similar-sounding Dow component Cisco [AIG
Loading...
()
] .
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway [BRK.A
Loading...
()
] could be a stock to watch, after posting its best quarterly results in nearly two years after the bell on Friday.
The U.S. Treasury will auction $75 billion in new government bonds, while Germany is due to issue 6 billion euros of the benchmark 10-year Bund on Wednesday.
- Peter Schacknow contributed to this report.
- These four sectors will be the next to lead the market.
- Zhu Zhu Pets are this year's must-have toy, fetching $40 or more on eBay.
- From the why-didn’t-I-think-of-that file, we present Jason Sadler, a man whose job is wearing T-shirts.
- It may be the most unusual guide to business you'll read.
- Shopping for a gadget hound? The choices can be baffling. Here are a few that should be a hit.
- "The Who" will be the halftime act for Super Bowl XLIV on Feb. 7 in Miami. Is the NFL behind the times?
Data is a real-time snapshot *Data is delayed at least 15 minutes