Wall St futures slump after rally as tech stocks slide
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Futures down: Dow 0.18%, S&P 500 0.73%, Nasdaq 1.24%
July 17 (Reuters) -U.S. stock index futures slid on Wednesday, with those tracking the Nasdaq 100 dropping over 1% as investors sold off megacap tech and chip shares and piled into lagging areas of the market such as small-cap stocks.
Megacaps such as Apple AAPL.O, Microsoft MSFT.O and Alphabet GOOGL.O slumped in premarket trading, dropping between 0.7% and 1.5%.
Shares of semiconductor companies also fell, with AI-chip favorite Nvidia NVDA.O sliding 3.1% and ASML ASML.O dropping 6.3% after a report that the Biden Administration was weighing severe trade restrictions in a crackdown on Chinese chips.
Elsewhere, U.S.-listed shares of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing TSM.N were down 3.5% after Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said Taiwan should pay the U.S. for its defense.
However, futures tracking the small-cap Russell 2000 RTYcv1 rose 0.2%. The index .RUT has rallied over the past five sessions as investors have shifted focus away from the banner growth in technology companies to underperforming areas of the market, on the back of growing bets that the Federal Reserve is nearing the start of monetary policy easing.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI and the S&P 500 .SPX also hit all-time closing highs on Tuesday.
Trade Nation senior marketanalyst David Morrison also cited profit-taking as a likely cause for Wednesday's dip in futures.
"It could be the rally has been running on fumes recently... what we're seeing now is a generalised pullback, which is totally consistent with consolidation and profit-taking after hitting record highs in the major indices," Morrison said.
Firmer bets on a Fed rate cut in September as well as rising expectations that former President Donald Trump will be back in the White House in November after the assassination attempt have helped lift stocks over the past few sessions.
Investors will focus on comments from Fed officials Thomas Barkin and Christopher Waller later in the day for clues on how policymakers have assessed recent inflation, employment and retail sales data.
Corporate earnings are also in focus, with Johnson & Johnson JNJ.N and Northern Trust NTRS.O among those scheduled to report before the bell.
On the economic data front, housing starts and industrial production data for June are also on deck.
At 5:35 a.m. ET, Dow e-minis 1YMcv1 were down 76 points, or 0.18%, S&P 500 e-minis EScv1 were down 41.5 points, or 0.73%, and Nasdaq 100 e-minis NQcv1 were down 255 points, or 1.24%.
Among single movers, trucking firm JB Hunt Transport Services JBHT.O fell 3.0% on reporting a 24% drop in second-quarter profit after markets closed on Tuesday.
Spirit Airlines SAVE.N slumped 5.7% after the company lowered its second-quarter revenue outlook, citing lower-than-expected non-ticket revenue.
Reporting by Lisa Mattackal in Bengaluru; Editing by Pooja Desai
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