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Market Snapshot: U.S. stocks to struggle to hang onto record levels

November 6, 2017

U.S. stocks looked challenged to extend record highs Monday, with investors primed for merger news in the chip sector, watching earnings and anxious for fresh headlines on the Republican tax plan.

Investors may be nervous this week as U.S. President Donald Trump’s Asian tour kicks off, with much attention focused on what he might say over North Korea.

What are stock-index futures doing?

Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average YMZ7, +0.05% rose 10 points to 23,459, while those for the S&P 500 index ESZ7, -0.05% slipped 1.2 point to 2,581.75 and those for the Nasdaq-100 index NQZ7, +0.02% was up 1 points to 6,291.75.

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