by Calculated Risk on 9/01/2025 06:12:00 PM
Weekend:
• Schedule for Week of August 31, 2025
Tuesday:
• At 10:00 AM ET, ISM Manufacturing Index for August. The consensus is for the ISM to be at 48.6, up from 48.0 in July.
• At 10:00 AM, Construction Spending for July. The consensus is for a 0.1% increase in construction spending.
• All Day, Light vehicle sales for August.
From CNBC: Pre-Market Data and Bloomberg futures S&P 500 and DOW futures are mostly unchanged (fair value).
Oil prices were up over the last week with WTI futures at $64.61 per barrel and Brent at $68.15 per barrel. A year ago, WTI was at $77, and Brent was at $82 – so WTI oil prices are down about 16% year-over-year.
Here is a graph from Gasbuddy.com for nationwide gasoline prices. Nationally prices are at $3.15 per gallon. A year ago, prices were at $3.28 per gallon, so gasoline prices are down $0.13 year-over-year.
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