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US equity index futures surrendered an earlier midday bounce in London, as investors struggled to look past an increasingly uncomfortable macro backdrop. Higher oil prices and rising government bond yields are combining to put renewed pressure on risk assets, while the absence of a clear catalyst for improvement makes it difficult to see why investors would materially increase equity exposure at current levels.

Recent trading sessions around SPX have failed to show a particularly strong sense of confidence for the equity index. Over the last four trading sessions, average price movements have barely reached 1.00%, a figure that remains below the fluctuations seen weeks ago, when daily moves above 1.5% were relatively common.

Risk appetite has been hurt today with global stocks, gold, bonds and bitcoin all falling. On the ascendency were the usual suspects: Oil and the US dollar amid further escalating tensions between the US and Iran. Stock investors are cementing hawkish Fed expectations to an extent that it is starting to hurt their appetite for risk. Also unnerving investors is the continued rise in global bond yields – which kind of goes hand in hand with oil prices.

The dollar surged across the board after the Fed Chair Kevin Warsh surprised with a hawkish-leaning speech at the Jackson Hole summit. All the bearish dollar bets that had been accumulated since last Friday on the back of data weakness and bond market troubles had to be squared and that triggered a short squeeze rally for the dollar. Gold and silver dropped, as a result, as too did bitcoin, while US indices were giving back earlier gains.

The major European indices and US index futures fell by mid-day in London. The pressure was once again exerted by familiar forced. Bond yields rebounded sharply and a renewed surge in oil prices weighed on sentiment.

US index futures were broadly flat by midday London, following a sharp decline in the previous session. That was before the US Treasury announced thar it was increasing buybacks of long-term debt. That announcement has just caused yields to take a dip, while stock futures and gold have rallied.

US equity futures were little changed in the first half of Friday’s session after the S&P 500 closed at another record high in the previous session

US Dollar Index, S&P 500 Outlook: Markets are testing defining technical levels for the second half of 2026, with several major assets approaching critical confluence zones as geopolitical developments and shifting Federal Reserve policy expectations drive risk sentiment.

A new bullish bias has started to gain relevance in the S&P 500, which is up 2.00% over the last two sessions, mainly supported by corporate earnings that have helped sustain short-term market confidence.

It has not been an easy stretch for the S&P 500. Over the last 5 trading sessions, the index has accumulated a decline of nearly -0.9%, while the broader outlook continues to show a phase of neutrality and indecision.

Things have become noticeably more complicated after the latest escalation between the US and Iran reignited concerns over global energy supplies. While the initial market reaction was relatively contained in US equities and foreign exchange, the sharp rise in crude oil cannot be ignored – and hasn’t been ignored by European investors.

The trading session has not shown a clear recovery in SPX price action. At the moment, the index is posting slight moves of around 0.1%, with no defined direction, despite the release of employment data in the United States.