Inventory futures are flat forward of first buying and selling day of November

U.S. inventory futures rose barely in in a single day buying and selling on Sunday as buyers readied for the primary buying and selling of November.

Market members are gearing up for an additional week of company earnings, a key Federal Reserve assembly on Wednesday and October’s jobs report.

Dow futures rose 80 factors. S&P 500 futures gained 0.25% and Nasdaq 100 futures rose 0.25%.

Shares closed out the month of October on Friday and all three main averages closed at file highs. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq clinched their finest months since November 2020.

The Dow Jones Industrial Common rose 5.8% in October. The S&P 500 rallied 6.9% final month and the technology-focused Nasdaq Composite added 7.3% in October. The month marked a rebound from September, the place the main indexes declined.

Company earnings season dominated October amid strong earnings even with international provide chain issues. About half of the S&P 500 firms have reported quarterly outcomes and greater than 80% of them beat earnings estimates from Wall Avenue analysts, in response to Refinitiv.

As earnings season continues this week, buyers can even be monitoring the Federal Reserve’s two-day assembly Tuesday and Wednesday. The central financial institution is broadly anticipated to announce that it’ll start to unwind its $120 billion in month-to-month bond purchases and finish this system solely by the center of subsequent yr.

Traders can even be on the lookout for the Fed’s feedback on rising costs as inflation has been working at a 30-year excessive.

“The Fed is a part of a world transfer to take away lodging, and the market drives proper previous that,” Bleakley Advisory Group CIO Peter Boockvar mentioned. “In a approach, the inventory market is enjoying a recreation of hen, with this inflation transfer and rates of interest and the response from central banks.”

The opposite huge occasion for the week will likely be October’s October employment report Friday, which may present some enchancment in hiring, as new circumstances of Covid-19 continued to say no.

“The change in nonfarm payrolls is anticipated to be a strong 450K which is prone to once more decrease the unemployment fee,” mentioned Jim Paulsen, chief funding strategist for Leuthold Group. “Key to the report will likely be how a lot wage inflation rises and whether or not the labor pressure participation fee lastly picks up after so many not too long ago got here of prolonged unemployment advantages.”

—CNBC’s Patti Domm contributed to this report.