Dow Jones futures fall on increasing risk aversion, FOMC Minutes awaited
The post Dow Jones futures fall on increasing risk aversion, FOMC Minutes awaited appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Dow Jones futures decline 0.40% to trade around 52,980 during European trading hours on Wednesday. Meanwhile, S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq 100 futures fall 0.17% and 0.14%, trading near 7,540 and 29,350, respectively. Global financial markets are on edge as plunging US stock futures signal deep investor anxiety ahead of Wednesday’s highly anticipated release of the FOMC Meeting Minutes. This release marks the first under newly appointed Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh, and traders are aggressively parsing the landscape for critical clues regarding the future path of US interest rates. This US central bank watching is unfolding against a backdrop of severe geopolitical escalation in the Middle East. Risk aversion spiked across global boards following US airstrikes in southern Iran, a direct military intervention responding to previous Iranian attacks on commercial shipping vesse