us stock futures nudged up ahead of fresh inflation figures and consumer sentiment data sp 500 futures rose 02 and dow jones industrial average futures added 01 changes in futures don’t necessarily predict moves after the opening bell european stocks declined friday for a threeday losing streak the stoxx europe 600 fell 03 in morning trade utilities and consumer discretionary sectors drove the losses while materials and energy sectors rose the uk’s ftse 100 which is dominated by large international businesses was down 02 other stock indexes in europe also mostly slipped as france’s cac 40 shed 05 the ftse 250 was lower 03 and germany’s dax lost 03 the swiss franc and the british pound depreciated 01 against the dollar whereas the euro was mostly flat against the us dollar with 1 euro buying 113 in commodities international benchmark brent crude slipped 02 to 7425 a barrel gold also slipped 02 to 177290 a troy ounce german 10year bund yields strengthened to minus 0340 and the yield on 10year uk government debt known as gilts gained to 0763 the 10year us treasury yield strengthened to 1510 from 1486 bond yields move in the opposite directions to prices stocks in asia mostly fell as hong kong’s hang seng declined 09 japan’s nikkei 225 index was down 1 and china’s benchmark shanghai composite shed 02 —an artificialintelligence tool was used in creating this article