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US Stock Market Today S&P 500 Futures Rise As Global Inflation Signals Soften
The Morning Bull - US Market Morning Update Wednesday, Feb, 18 2026
US stock futures are pointing higher this morning, with contracts tied to the S&P 500 up about 0.5% and Nasdaq 100 futures up just over 0.5%. The backdrop is a global slide in government bond yields after softer inflation in the UK, where price growth eased to 3.0%, and in Canada at 2.3%, which investors read as central banks being closer to cutting interest rates. At the same time, US bond yields sit near 4.06% ahead of...