U.S. futures for the S&P 500 were down 0.2% and futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average were flat. Changes in futures do not necessarily predict movements after the opening bell.
In Europe, the Stoxx Europe 600 dropped 0.1% in morning trading. Unilever rose 5.5% and Hannover Rueck SE added 2.9%. On the other hand, Reckitt Benckiser Group slipped 3.5%, and HelloFresh slipped 3.2%. The FTSE 100 added 0.1%. Other stocks in Europe were flat as France's CAC 40 was flat and Germany's DAX was flat.
The Wall Street Journal Dollar Index climbed 0.3% to 98.56.
In commodities, Brent crude fell 0.3% to $86.66 a barrel, and WTI crude fell 0.3% to $82.47 a barrel. The European benchmark price for natural gas, the Dutch futures contract TTF, was up 1.3% to EUR29.21 a megawatt hour.
The German 10-year Bund yield declined by 1 basis point to 2.456% from 2.461%, and the yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury fell by 1 basis point to 4.326% from 4.334%. Bond prices and yields move in opposite directions.
Stocks in Asia were mixed as Japan's Nikkei 225 index climbed 0.7%, whereas Hong Kong's Hang Seng declined 1.2%. China's benchmark Shanghai Composite declined 0.7%.
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