us stock futures traded slightly lower in early premarket trade after the dow jones jumped around 560 points in the previous session investors are awaiting earnings results from carmax inc nyse kmx cintas corporation nasdaq ctas and paychex inc nasdaq payx data on gross domestic product for the third quarter chicago fed national activity index for november and corporate profits for the third quarter will be released at 830 am et us gdp is expected to grow 21 in the third quarter data on existing home sales and conference board’s consumer confidence index will be released at 1000 am et futures for the dow jones industrial average dropped 32 points to 3534900 while the standard  poor’s 500 index futures fell 9 points to 463175 futures for the nasdaq 100 index dropped 5475 points to 1592525 the us has the highest number of covid19 cases and deaths in the world with total infections in the country exceeding 52253840 with around 830990 deaths india reported a total of at least 34758480 confirmed cases while brazil confirmed over 22219470 cases oil prices traded higher as brent crude futures rose 04 to trade at 7425 per barrel while us wti crude futures rose 05 to trade at 7144 a barrel the american petroleum institute late tuesday said crudeoil inventories dropped 3670 million barrels last week the energy information administration’s weekly report on petroleum inventories in the us is scheduled for release at 1030 am et european markets were mostly higher today the spanish ibex index rose 04 and stoxx europe 600 index gained 01 the french cac 40 index rose 01 london’s ftse 100 slipped 01 while german dax 30 gained 01 the british economy grew 11 on quarter during the three months to september business investment in the uk dropped 25 quarteroverquarter during the julyseptember period while current account deficit widened to gbp 244 billion in the third quarter spains producer price inflation increased to an alltime high of 331 yearoveryear in november asian markets traded mostly higher today japan’s nikkei 225 rose 016 while hong kong’s hang seng index gained 057 and china’s shanghai composite slipped 007 australia’s spasx 200 rose 01 while india’s bse sensex climbed 11 the westpacmelbourne institute leading economic index in australia increased 012 yearoveryear in november stifel upgraded darden restaurants inc nyse dri from hold to buy and announced a 165 price target check out other major ratings here   blackberry limited nyse bb reported strongerthanexpected results for its third quarter on monday   novartis nyse nvs announced plans to acquire all of the outstanding share capital of gyroscope therapeutics   aar corp nyse air reported weakerthanexpected results for its second quarter and announced a 150 million buyback program   us listed chinese electric vehicle maker nio inc’s nyse nio average selling price has risen 6 in the first eleven months of the year cnevpost reported citing a regional research agency check out other breaking news here