Right here’s what we’re watching forward of Friday’s buying and selling motion.

—U.S. inventory futures edged decrease Friday, placing the S&P 500 on monitor to finish the week with muted features after notching its ninth document closing excessive for 2021.

Futures tied to the S&P 500 slipped 0.3%, pointing to a drop after the opening bell. Contracts linked to the Nasdaq-100 Index edged down 0.3%, suggesting that expertise shares may slip. Learn our full market wrap.

What’s Coming Up

—The College of Michigan’s shopper sentiment index for the opening weeks of February, due at 10 a.m. ET, is anticipated to inch as much as 80.8 from 79.0 on the finish of January.

Market Movers to Watch

—All hail Child Yoda. Walt Disney  shares have been up 0.9% forward of the bell after the leisure large reported a first-quarter revenue, as its flagship streaming service, Disney+, added greater than 21 million new subscribers through the interval. However the pandemic continued to zap leads to the corporate’s movie-distribution and theme-park segments.