Wall St set to open lower after Middle East tensions make investors jittery
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ADP survey: US adds 143,000 private jobs in September
Nike falls after withdrawing annual revenue forecast
Humana drops on fewer members in Medicare Advantage plans
Futures off: Dow 0.21%, S&P 500 0.23%, Nasdaq 0.12%
Updated at 08:24 a.m. ET/1224 GMT
By Johann M Cherian and Purvi Agarwal
Oct 2 (Reuters) - Wall Street was poised for a slightly lower open onWednesday after geopolitical tensions in the Middle East and a domestic port strike left investors nervous, while a survey allayed concerns about a rapid cooldown in the labor market.
In a dour start to the final quarter of the year,the S&P 500 .SPX and the Nasdaq .IXIC logged their biggest one-day drops in nearly a month on Wednesday, after Iran fired missiles against Israel in retaliation for its attacks in Lebanon.
Markets heldtheir ground since, afterIsrael and the U.S. vowed to strike back, with oil prices climbing more than 3% as traders priced in possible supply disruptions from the oil-rich region.SLB SLB.N and Occidental Petroleum OXY.N added 1.7% and 1.6%, respectively,in premarket trading. O/R
Defense stocks such as Lockheed Martin LMT.N and RTX RTX.N gained 0.7% and 1%, respectively, afterthe broader S&P 500 aerospace and defense index .SPLRCAERO hit a record high in the previous session.
"Sentiment is dominated by the risk of escalating conflict in the Middle East and there is a lack of information on how strong the response is going to be from the Israelis," said Jay Hatfield, portfolio manager at InfraCap.
Meanwhile, the ADP National Employment report showed theeconomy added 143,000 private jobs in September, compared with estimates of 120,000, according to economists Reuters polled.
Odds of a quarter-percentage-point rate reduction at the Fed's November meeting are at 64.2%, up from 42.6% a week ago, according to the CME Group's FedWatch Tool.
"The ADP report was strong and that might be mitigating the volatility, because we're not in a complete information vacuum," Hatfield said.
Dow E-minis 1YMcv1 were down 89 points, or 0.21%, S&P 500 E-minis EScv1 were down 13 points, or 0.23% and Nasdaq 100 E-minis NQcv1 were down 24.25 points, or 0.12%.
Futures tracking the small-cap Russell 2000 index RTYc1 slipped 0.7%,while safe-haven Treasury bonds dipped after Tuesday's surge. US/
The CBOE Volatility Index .VIX, Wall Street's fear gauge, hovered near a three-week high and was last at 19.49.
Comments from Fed policymakers including Beth Hammack and Alberto Musalem are scheduled through the day, while the focus will stay on Friday's non-farm payrolls data for September.
Markets ended September higher after the U.S. Federal Reserve kicked off its monetary-policy-easing cycle with an unusual 50-basis-point rate cut to shore up the jobs market, which has taken on a greater importance in the central bank's dual mandate of price stability and low unemployment.
Investors also monitored a dockworkers' strike on the East and Gulf coasts which entered its second day. The walkout could cost the American economy roughly $5 billion a day, analysts at JPMorgan estimated.
Some companies such as Walmart WMT.N, Merit Medical Systems MMSI.O andMcCormick MKC.N said they had planned for the strike. Their shares were flat in premarket trading.
Analysts said the spike in oil prices, along with the port strike, could raise inflation, which neared the central bank's 2% target recently.
Dow-component Nike NKE.N slid 7.8% after withdrawing its annual revenue forecast just as a new CEO is set to take the helm.
Humana HUM.N tanked 21.7% after it said it expects the total number of members enrolled in its top-rated Medicare Advantage plans for those aged 65 and above to decrease for 2025.
Reporting by Johann M Cherian and Purvi Agarwal in Bengaluru; Editing by Pooja Desai
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