traders work on the floor of the new york stock exchange nyse in new york city us december 2 2021 us stock futures were slightly higher thursday evening after a day in which tech names struggled dragging the rest of the market down with them futures on the dow jones industrial average rose 009 sp 500 futures rose 008 and nasdaq 100 futures were flat in regular trading the techfocused nasdaq composite fell 247 for its worst day since september the other averages saw more modest losses the dow fell 008 while the sp 500 lost 08 the moves erased a rally in wednesdays session that followed the feds announcement of a more aggressive plan to wind down its asset purchases and that it is looking at hike rates in 2022 as investors continued to digest the news as well as the impact of both rising inflation and the spread of the omicron covid variant they appeared to be rotating from highgrowth tech names to consumer staples bank stocks were among the biggest gainers of the day bank of america and wells fargo added more than 2 goldman sachs and jpmorgan rose more than 1 shares of verizon jumped more than 4 as one of the top performers in the dow weekly jobless claims came in slightly higher than expected thursday and housing starts for november were stronger than economists projected after declining in the prior month on friday darden restaurants and winnebago are scheduled to report quarterly earnings results before the bell