US markets faltered Friday as European stay bullish

• IShares MBS ETF was the biggest decliner after giving up 0.61% Friday As things stand, Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Securities ETF (down 0.566%) and iShares Trust – iShares iBonds Dec 2021 Term Treasury ETF (down 0.039%) are underperforming today
• European markets are up as CAC moves up to 7,297 (up 1.53%).

Friday's market activity meant that leading equity indices in the US declined as Nasdaq was down 1.69% before closing the session at 11,400. Dow Jones shed 1.02% and closed at 32,817.

US markets are now currently closed and set to reopen today; meanwhile, European session in progress; markets are rising as CAC is up by 1.53%, hitting 7,297. Asia-Pacific markets were down today as ASX 200 goes down to 7,224.8 (down 1.12%).

Ciena Corporation and Nutanix, Inc. due to release their earnings reports within the following week.

With markets struggling for positive sentiment, upcoming macro data could potentially attract buyers in the market as as things stand, upcoming United States Pending Home Sales data is projected to fall short of market expectations with newly published data of 1%, following on from the preceding figure of 2.5%. New data is set to be published today at 15:00 UTC.

Some optimism can drawn from the fact that United States Core Durable Goods Orders is projected to outperform its last figure with 0.1%. It previously stood at -0.2%; data will be released today at 13:30 UTC. United States Consumer Confidence is projected to outperform its last figure with 108.5. It previously stood at 107.1; data will be released tomorrow at 15:00 UTC.

Friday's bearishness meant that iShares MBS ETF lost 0.61% Friday before closing at $92.81. As things stand, Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Securities ETF (down 0.566%), iShares Trust – iShares iBonds Dec 2021 Term Treasury ETF (down 0.039%) are also underperforming today.

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.

The fund disclosed a quarterly dividend of 10.9 cents per share on Tuesday, November 29th and was paid on Tuesday, December 6th — thereby generating a yield of 0.954% for all eligble investors.