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Futures down: Dow 0.7%, S&P 500 1%, Nasdaq 1.3%
Nov 4 (Reuters) - U.S. stock futures tumbled on Tuesday
as investors questioned lofty valuations in the technology
sector after top Wall Street banks warned of a stock market
selloff and AI darling Palantir's ( PLTR ) sales forecast failed to lift
the mood.
The chief executives of Goldman Sachs ( GS ) and Morgan
Stanley ( MS ) warned in an investment summit in Hong Kong of a
stock market correction of more than 10% over the next two
years.
Palantir Technologies' ( PLTR ) shares slid 6.6% in
premarket trading even as the data analytics company forecast
fourth-quarter revenue above analysts' estimates. The stock has
jumped nearly 400% in the past year.
Wall Street indexes touched all-time highs last week and
marked solid gains for October as quarterly reports from several
Big Tech companies signaled surging investments on artificial
intelligence, a key driver of the bull run in U.S. equities this
year.
However, doubts surrounding the circular nature of the
spending and monetization of the technology have resurfaced,
spurring investors to pull back after a breakneck rally in
AI-related stocks.
"It just feels like there's been so much talk that the
market is overbought and there's a lot of overvalued stuff there
that's concentrated in tech," said David Morrison, senior market
analyst at Trade Nation.
The rally will be under renewed scrutiny with semiconductor
company Advanced Micro Devices ( AMD ) reporting after the bell
on Tuesday and Qualcomm ( QCOM ) later in the week.
Big names reporting before the bell include Uber ( UBER ),
Pfizer ( PFE ), Marriott International ( MAR ), Yum Brands ( YUM )
and Shopify.
At 06:01 a.m., Dow E-minis fell 337 points, or
0.71%, S&P 500 E-minis shed 68.25 points, or 0.99%, and
Nasdaq 100 E-minis lost 336.25 points, or 1.29%.
The CBOE Volatility Index, Wall Street's fear gauge,
was near a two-week high.
DATA DARKNESS DIMMING DECEMBER HOPES
With the U.S. government shutdown likely to become the
longest ever, Fed officials have been left in the dark without
data to rely on. Wednesday's ADP National Employment data will
take on renewed importance as a gauge of the labor market.
Recent conflicting commentary from Fed officials has
indicated differing perspectives on how to handle the data gap.
Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee said he was on the
fence about cutting rates in December, with inflation still far
above the central bank's target, while Governor Stephen Miran
called the current monetary policy too restrictive.
Traders are now pricing in a 70% chance of a 25-basis-point
rate cut in December, lower than 90% a week earlier, according
to CME Group's FedWatch tool.
Sarepta Therapeutics ( SRPT ) shares dropped 40% in premarket
trading after a trial for its muscle-wasting disease drug missed
a key goal.
Hims and Hers topped revenue estimates for the
third-quarter, sending shares rising 0.7%.