us stock futures traded lower in early premarket trade after the dow jones tumbled 200 points in the previous session investors are awaiting earnings results from the goldman sachs group inc nyse gs jb hunt transport services inc nyse jbht and the pnc financial services group inc nyse pnc the empire state manufacturing index for january is scheduled for release at 830 am et while the housing market index for january will be released at 1000 am et futures for the dow jones industrial average dipped 250 points to 3554600 while the standard  poor’s 500 index futures fell 5150 points to 460325 futures for the nasdaq index tumbled 27450 points to 1532125 the us has the highest number of covid19 cases and deaths in the world with total infections in the country exceeding 67631190 with around 874320 deaths india reported a total of at least 37618270 confirmed cases while brazil confirmed over 23083290 cases oil prices traded higher as brent crude futures rose 13 to trade at 8757 per barrel while us wti crude futures gained 17 to trade at 8525 a barrel the total number of active us oil rigs rose by 11 to 492 rigs this week baker hughes inc reported friday european markets were lower today the stoxx europe 600 index fell 11 while spain’s ibex 35 index fell 06 and london’s ftse 100 slipped 07 the french cac 40 index fell 09 while german dax dropped 1 the zew indicator of economic sentiment for the eurozone increased by 226 points to a reading of 494 in january while german zew indicator of economic sentiment climbed 226 points to 517 in january italy’s trade surplus shrank to eur 4163 billion in november from eur 6864 billion in the yearago month the uk unemployment rate dropped to 41 in the three months to november recording the lowest level since the three months to june 2020 while number of employed people rose by 60000 on quarter to 32475 million during the three months to november asian markets traded mostly lower today japan’s nikkei fell 027 hong kong’s hang seng index fell 043 while china’s shanghai composite rose 080 australia’s spasx 200 fell 01 and india’s bse sensex fell 09 hong kong’s unemployment rate dropped to 39 in the fourth quarter from 41 in the three months ending november industrial production in japan surged 70 in november while the bank of japan maintained its key shortterm interest rate at 01 bmo capital upgraded under armour inc nyse uaa from market perform to outperform and raised the price target from 23 to 25 under armour shares rose 02 to 1890 in premarket trading check out other major ratings here   citigroup inc nyse c is in advanced talks with taiwan’s fubon financial holding co on 15 billion china asset sale bloomberg reported   plus therapeutics nasdaq pstv reported an offering of up to 5 million   elliott investment management and vista equity partners are in advanced talks to buy softwaremaker citrix systems inc nasdaq ctxs bloomberg reported recently   schmitt industries inc nasdaq smit reported net income of 057 per share for the three months ended november 30 2021 versus a yearago net loss of 063 per share consolidated revenues jumped 459 yearoveryear to 2961 million for the quarter check out other breaking news here