Sunday Night Futures

• Solid Holiday Retail Sales Forecasts

Monday:
• At 2:00 PM ET, Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey on Bank Lending Practices for October.

From CNBC: Pre-Market Data and Bloomberg futures S&P 500 are down 28 and DOW futures are down 208 (fair value).

Oil prices were up over the last week with WTI futures at $92.61 per barrel and Brent at $98.57 per barrel. A year ago, WTI was at $82, and Brent was at $83 – so WTI oil prices are up 12% year-over-year.

Here is a graph from Gasbuddy.com for nationwide gasoline prices. Nationally prices are at $3.78 per gallon. A year ago, prices were at $3.42 per gallon, so gasoline prices are up $0.36 per gallon year-over-year.