us stock futures traded mostly flat in early premarket trade after the dow jones jumped around 150 points in the previous session investors are awaiting earnings results from science applications international corporation saic jefferies financial group inc jef and dave  busters entertainment inc play data on wholesale inventories and us international trade in goods will be released at 830 am et the dallas fed manufacturing index for march will be released at 1030 am et futures for the dow jones industrial average rose 6 points to 3476500 while the standard  poor’s 500 index futures slipped 2 points to 453450 futures for the nasdaq index fell 18 points to 1472800 check out our premarket coverage here  oil prices traded lower as brent crude futures fell 37 to trade at 11299 per barrel while us wti crude futures fell 41 to trade at 10923 a barrel the total number of active us oil rigs rose by 7 to 531 rigs this week baker hughes inc reported friday the us has the highest number of covid19 cases and deaths in the world with total infections in the country exceeding 81621880 with around 1003460 deaths india reported a total of at least 43020720 confirmed cases while brazil confirmed over 29842410 cases check out this executives sell about 30m of 3 stocks   european markets were higher today the stoxx europe 600 index gained 07 while spain’s ibex 35 index rose 11 and london’s ftse 100 rose 03 the french cac 40 index gained 09 while german dax climbed 12   asian markets traded mostly higher today japan’s nikkei 225 fell 073 hong kong’s hang seng index gained 124 and china’s shanghai composite index rose 007 australia’s spasx 200 rose 01 while india’s bse sensex rose 03 profits earned by chinese industrial firms increase 50 yearoveryear to cny 1158 trillion in januaryfebruary 2022 keybanc maintained global payments inc gpn with an overweight and lowered the price target from 175 to 165 check out this executives buy over 22m of 3 penny stocks   coinbase global inc is reportedly in talks to acquire 2tm the parent company of brazil’s largest crypto exchange mercado bitcoin according to a report from local publication estadão coinbase is expected to close the deal sometime in april   tesla inc is planning to halt production for a second time this month at giga shanghai amid intensifying covid19 restrictions bloomberg news reported on sunday citing people familiar with the matter   express inc named jason judd as senior vice president  chief financial officer   apple inc has agreed to pay out a 148 million class action settlement in a case involving icloud data storage check out other breaking news here