- Carmax Inc and Accenture plc Class A (Ireland) the latest companies to report earnings for Q1
- IShares Trust – iShares iBonds Dec 2021 Term Treasury ETF was the biggest decliner yesterday after giving up 0.04%
- European markets were down yesterday as DAX slips to 15,830 (down 0.99%).
Ahead of Monday's session: leading equity indices in the US declined as S&P 500 lost 0.77% and ended the session at 4,348.33. Nasdaq was down 1% before closing the session at 13,500.
US markets are now currently closed and set to reopen Monday; meanwhile, European markets closed lower yesterday. Asia-Pacific markets were down yesterday as ASX 200 is currently down 1.34% and trading around 7,099.2.
The earnings season is coming to an end and Carmax Inc and Accenture plc Class A (Ireland) have release their reports.
Market's down-tick coincides with some negative macro data published earlier as United States Crude Oil Inventories fell short of the 329,000 projections, with new data of -3.83 million.
While price action maintains a negative bias, United States Services PMI came out at 54.1, while a consensus of analysts was expecting 54. United States Existing Home Sales (May) released Thursday with a figure of 4.3 million, while the previous figure was 4.29 million.
While markets are generally down so far today, some assets outperformed such as ProShares UltraShort MSCI Japan gained 5.73% to reach $13.91. Vanguard Total International Bond ETF (up 0.515%) is also performing well.
Yesterday's bearishness meant that iShares Trust – iShares iBonds Dec 2021 Term Treasury ETF lost 0.04% yesterday before closing at $25.35.
IShares Trust – iShares iBonds Dec 2021 Term Treasury ETF has been pretty quiet for the last a month, trading mostly flat and moving by only 0.02 cents on average.