US Equity Futures Fall as Walmart Misses, Jobless Claims Rise

[lostincalifornia]

"US equity futures declined Thursday morning after retail bellwether Walmart Inc. posted a rare profit miss and as weekly jobless claims came in higher than expected.

Contracts on the S&P 500 Index were down 0.4% at 8:51 a.m. in New York. Shares of Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, slid after profits fell short of expectations for the first time in three years. Nasdaq 100 Index futures declined 0.4%.

Thursday’s trading extends the selloff in US equities to a fifth straight day, with traders also focusing on a closely watched Federal Reserve symposium that will feature a speech Friday by Chair Jerome Powell. Megacap tech stocks have sparked a rout in key indexes over the last several days, causing the S&P 500 to shed around $660 billion in value over that span."


https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-21/us-equity-futures-fall-as-walmart-misses-jobless-claims-rise?srnd=homepage-americas

[BoRaGard]

1. "This is all our fault." - G.O.P.

[durablend]

2. "This is all Biden's fault"

FTFY

[Lovie777]

3. CBS, Walmart, Target, corporations, businesses, federal government........................

job loses, security of jobs in the tank, economy failing, high cost of foods, healthcare, homes, rent, eggs are still too high.

And shithole want to further spend tax payer's money on himself and cronies. WTF, shithole will be using the people's money on an illegal ballroom, hell he has trashed the WH.

[dalton99a]

4. The Trump recession is coming

A big beautiful stagflation

[BoRaGard]

5. #TrumpRecession(r) going viral

straight to the moral dumpster of republicon "values"

[D. Spaulding]

6. The Trumpers will have to get busy;

trying to locate and fire any individual or entity that releases bad info like this. Welcome to our brave new world.