{"id":1398,"date":"2021-06-18T10:58:51","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T13:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wintrademarkets.com\/news\/?p=1398"},"modified":"2021-06-18T10:58:53","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T13:58:53","slug":"stocks-open-and-move-lower-at-the-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wintrademarkets.com\/new\/2021\/06\/18\/stocks-open-and-move-lower-at-the-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Stocks open and move lower at the start"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bullard comments spoke the market<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The US stocks are open. Not only is it a quadruple witching hour today, but the Fed&#8217;s Bullard comments has spooked the market further. Volatility and volumes tend to increase dramatically on option\/futures settlement days.<br>Day snapshot of the market a couple minutes into the open is currently showing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>S&amp;P index -35.72 points or -0.5% of 4186.14<\/li><li>NASDAQ index -101 points or -0.71% 14060<\/li><li>Dow industrial average -321 points or -0.95% at 33501.62.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In other markets:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Spot gold is up $1.57 or 0.09% 1775.07. That is off the low of $1773.18<\/li><li>Spot silver is up six cents or 0.26% at $25.97. That is off its low of $25.87<\/li><li>WTI crude oil futures are down seven cents or -0.10% at $70.97. The low price reached $70.16. The high price is up at $71.12<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Iin the debt market, the two year yield is higher while the 10 and 30 year yields are lower:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>two year 0.244%, +3.4 basis points<\/li><li>five year 0.912%, +3.1 basis points<\/li><li>10 year 1.495%, -0.8 basis points<\/li><li>30 year 2.063%, -2.9 basis points<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In the forex, the USD is the leader as the strongest (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forexlive.com\/technical-analysis\/!\/the-jpy-is-the-strongest-and-the-nzd-is-the-weakest-as-na-traders-enter-for-the-day-20210618\" target=\"_blank\">and much higher than the NY opening levels<\/a>).\u00a0 The NZD and AUD\u00a0remain the weakest.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/az705044.vo.msecnd.net\/20210618\/0-2021-06-18_6-36-29.jpg\" alt=\"The forex market\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Source:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forexlive.com\/technical-analysis\/!\/stocks-opened-and-move-lower-at-the-start-20210618\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.forexlive.com\/technical-analysis\/!\/stocks-opened-and-move-lower-at-the-start-20210618\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.forexlive.com\/technical-analysis\/!\/stocks-opened-and-move-lower-at-the-start-20210618<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bullard comments spoke the market The US stocks are open. Not only is it a quadruple witching hour today, but the Fed&#8217;s Bullard comments has spooked the market further. Volatility and volumes tend to increase dramatically on option\/futures settlement days.Day snapshot of the market a couple minutes into the open is currently showing: S&amp;P index [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1208,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1398","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hft"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wintrademarkets.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wintrademarkets.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wintrademarkets.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wintrademarkets.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wintrademarkets.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wintrademarkets.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1399,"href":"https:\/\/wintrademarkets.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398\/revisions\/1399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wintrademarkets.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wintrademarkets.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wintrademarkets.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wintrademarkets.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}