US futures contract slightly lower as trading begins in 2021

US futures futures fell late Sunday, in the first trading session of the new year.

Dow Jones Industrial Average futures contract YM00,
+ 0.09%,
S&P 500 futures ES00,
+ 0.05%
and Nasdaq-100 futures NQ00,
-0.18%
everyone slipped, two days before the Georgia by-elections that would decide Senate control and likely the fate of the incoming Biden government’s economic policy.

U.S. equities ended higher on Thursday, the last trading day of 2020, with the Dow and S&P 500 setting new records as investors kicked off a wild year that caused shares to collapse in a bear market before peaking again. has.

The Dow DJIA,
+ 0.65%
closed the year with 8.3%, the S&P 500 SPX,
+ 0.64%
ended up with 16.3%, and the Nasdaq COMP,
+ 0.14%
increased by 43.6% during the year.

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