Stock Market Today: Top 10 things to know before the market opens

SGX Nifty

The SGX Nifty indicates a marginally higher start for the broader index with a gain of 21 points on Tuesday. SGX futures stood at 18,725 points.

Trade setup for Tuesday: Top 15 things to know before the opening bell

US Markets

Stock futures were modestly higher Monday night as investors looked toward the next batch of economic data and readied for the end of June and the second quarter. Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average added 41 points, or 0.1 percent. S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq-100 futures each also gained around 0.2 percent.

Those moves follow a losing day on Wall Street. The Nasdaq Composite led the way down, dropping nearly 1.2 percent as investors took profits on some technology stocks. Tesla slid 6 percent, while Nvidia, Alphabet and Meta Platforms all finished more than 3 percent lower.

The S&P 500 closed down by about 0.5 percent, while the Dow was finished slightly below flat. It was the sixth consecutive negative session for the 30-stock Dow, its longest losing streak since September 2022. Despite Monday’s leg down, the S&P 500 and Nasdaq are still on pace to finish June more than 3 percent higher, while the Dow is poised for a monthly advance of nearly 2.5 percent.

European Markets

European markets closed slightly lower Monday as investors digested weak economic signals after a downbeat week. The pan-European Stoxx 600 index provisionally closed 0.1 percent lower to end a choppy session. Chemicals led gains, up 0.9 percent, as oil and gas stocks climbed 0.8 percent. Health care stocks saw the biggest loss, down 1.1 percent. FTSE closed 0.11 percent lower at 7453 points. DAX closed 0.11 percent lower at 15,813 points.

Asian Markets

Asia-Pacific markets are mixed after Wall Street saw a tech sell-off Monday, with Tesla tumbling 6 percent after Goldman Sachs downgraded the electric car maker, citing pricing headwinds. Other tech names like Nvidia, Alphabet and Meta Platforms also lost more than 3 percent each.

In Australia, the S&P/ASX 200 opened 0.28 percent up as investors await inflation figures for May on Wednesday, which will give a clue to the Reserve Bank of Australia’s rate moves in August.

In Japan, the Nikkei 225 extended its losses after three straight days of declines, falling 0.25 percent, with the Topix seeing a smaller loss of 0.06 percent.

South Korea’s Kospi and Kosdaq also was in the red, dropping 0.46 percent and 0.53 percent respectively in early trade. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index look set to snap its five-day losing streak, with futures at 18,894 compared to the HSI’s close of 18,794.13.

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"Today, we filed an appeal in the Supreme Court regarding the NCLAT’s decision in the Android case. The NCLAT correctly found that harm for anti-competitive behavior needs to be proven but did not apply this requirement to several of the CCI’s directions that it upheld. We look forward to presenting our case before the Supreme Court and demonstrating how Android has benefitted Indian users, developers, and OEMs, and powered India’s digital transformation" a Google spokesperson said in a statement.

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Oil prices

Oil prices pared early gains on Monday, tracking a broader calm in financial markets as investors watched warily to see if there’ll be further fallout from an attempted insurrection in Russia that could disrupt energy supplies from one of the world’s largest oil producer nations.

Mercenaries led by Yevgeny Prigozhin, leader of the Wagner group of private militia, marched toward Moscow on Saturday, in what was seen as the biggest threat to Vladimir Putin’s 23-year grip on power. The militia group reportedly took control of southern city of Rostov-on-Don — where several major oil and gas pipelines intersect — before the armed rebellion was abruptly called off, less than 24 hours after it began.

“Collectively the world would have breathed a sigh of relief at least on the oil market side that the disruption in the Russian state did not go through the worst that people feared,” Alok Sinha, Standard Chartered global head of oil & gas and chemicals, told CNBC Monday.

West Texas Intermediate futures were up about 0.8 percent at $69.74, after initially rising as much as 1.3 percent to just below $70 a barrel earlier Monday, followed by last week’s almost 4 percent decline. Brent crude was trading about 0.8 percent higher at $74.47.

Dollar

The Dollar index traded 0.08 percent higher in futures at 102.78, whereas the value of one dollar hovered near Rs 82.00.

Gold

Gold prices on Monday firmed above last session’s more than three-month low, as concerns surrounding the political turmoil in Russia drove flows into safe-haven bullion, outweighing risks from the Federal Reserve’s hawkish outlook. Spot gold was up 0.2 percent at $1,925.53 per ounce, while gold futures gained 0.4 percent to $1,938.00.

“We are seeing some modest safe-haven demand in gold on the Russian incursion that was quickly aborted over the weekend. But there are still some underlying worries,” said Jim Wyckoff, senior analyst at Kitco.

“The marketplace wonders what’s going to happen next because the Russian military appears to be destabilizing. Putin appears to see his power weakening, and that has major implications around the world.”

FII and DII

Foreign institutional investors (FII) sold shares worth Rs 409.43 crore, whereas domestic institutional investors (DII) purchased shares worth Rs 250.12 crore on June 26, provisional data from the National Stock Exchange shows.

With inputs from Reuters and other agencies.