traders work on the floor of the new york stock exchange nyse in new york stock futures are flat wednesday night as investors await new inflation data and eye election results futures connected to the dow jones industrial average were up 14 points or 004 sp 500 futures were up 002 while nasdaq 100 futures added 01 it follows a day of losses with the dow dropping 64689 points or 195 the nasdaq composite and sp 500 shed nearly 25 and about 21 respectively the declines came amid uncertainty stemming from us midterm elections the market had hoped republicans would take sweeping control of the house of representatives and the senate on tuesday – a situation that would create gridlock in washington dc instead key senate races in arizona georgia and nevada remain tightly contested indeed the senate race between raphael warnock the democratic incumbent and herschel walker will head to a december runoff stocks suffering worsened late wednesday after crypto exchange binance said its backing out of plans to acquire its rival ftx this dragged down the tech sector and pulled bitcoins price to lows last seen in 2020 lack of clarity around the election as well as uncertainty around incoming october consumer price index data and corporate earnings reports were the drivers around the selloff said chris zaccarelli chief investment officer at the independent advisor alliance those three things are leading to uncertainty he said and as everyone knows markets really dont like uncertainty octobers cpi report due thursday at 830 am et is the next focal point for investors economists polled by dow jones expect that headline cpi rose in october by 06 from september or 79 over a year ago its a key report for the federal reserve which will meet again in middecember weekly jobless claims are also due out on thursday morning aurora cannabis and nio the chinese electric vehicle maker are set to report earnings