
September S&P 500 E-Mini futures (ESU24) are up +0.09%, and September Nasdaq 100 E-Mini futures (NQU24) are down -0.01% this morning as market participants braced for the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates, with opinion divided on the size of this week’s cut.
Investors were also evaluating the implications of a second assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. Trump is safe after his Secret Service detail opened fire on a man brandishing an assault rifle at his West Palm Beach, Florida, golf course on Sunday, in what the Federal Bureau of Investigation described as an apparent assassination attempt.