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On Sunday, when the futures markets opened up, the equity futures had a briefly popped and then settled down into virtually unchanged. (Briefly, the /NQ was even a little negative). Over the course of the night, however, the markets absorbed what I assumed are the political ramifications of this weekend and pushed steadily higher. I’ve highlighted in red the brief and peculiar period in which markets completely shrugged everything off. Here’s the /ES:
We’ve all been anxious to see what the effects on the futures markets would be following yesterday’s first U.S. assassination attempt in nearly half a century. I’m only bringing this observations ten minutes after the opening bell, but so far, the /ES doesn’t care….
