{"id":161103,"date":"2025-08-18T12:54:44","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T12:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/us-stock-futures-today-market-stuck-between-hope-and-fear-as-dow-sp-500-nasdaq-face-fed-test-retail-r-the-economic-times\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T12:54:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T12:54:44","slug":"us-stock-futures-today-market-stuck-between-hope-and-fear-as-dow-sp-500-nasdaq-face-fed-test-retail-r-the-economic-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/us-stock-futures-today-market-stuck-between-hope-and-fear-as-dow-sp-500-nasdaq-face-fed-test-retail-r-the-economic-times\/","title":{"rendered":"US stock futures today: Market stuck between hope and fear as Dow, S&amp;P 500, Nasdaq face Fed test, retail r &#8211; The Economic Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. markets are caught in limbo this morning. Stock futures for the Dow, S&amp;P 500, and Nasdaq are slipping as traders juggle hopes for Federal Reserve rate cuts with worries over retail earnings and global politics. 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Stock futures for the Dow, S&amp;P 500, and Nasdaq are slipping as traders juggle hopes for Federal Reserve rate cuts with worries over retail earnings and global politics. It&rsquo;s the kind of uneasy start that shows Wall Street isn&rsquo;t sure whether to lean into optimism or brace [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":161104,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-us","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}