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Pre-Market Update — Thursday, September 10, 2026

By · Independent market intelligence from Sunday Night Futures LLC

Pre-Market Pulse: Risk-off tape as a hot PPI print collides with $100 oil, sending futures lower and gold reeling.

The 8:30 Print

PPI Final Demand ran hot at +5.4% YoY versus a prior +4.8%, while Core PPI held at +4.7% YoY, matching the previous read. Verified consensus wasn't available on either line, so we won't frame it as a beat or miss — but the direction of travel on headline PPI is unambiguously higher, and the tape treated it as such. Initial and Continuing Jobless Claims were scheduled for the same 8:30 slot but official actuals are not yet verified.

Reaction was clean: $ES=F flipped from +0.09% pre-print to -0.53%, $NQ=F extended from -0.20% to -1.16%, and $GC=F cratered from -0.54% to -1.76% as yields and the dollar pushed higher into the number. $CL=F ripped further, from +1.34% to +4.63%.

Overnight Action

Europe is under pressure — $FTSE -1.87%, DAX -2.11%, Euro Stoxx 50 -0.56% — as Lagarde and the ECB take the spotlight with oil above triple digits. Asia was mixed: Nikkei +0.20%, Hang Seng -1.43%. US futures point to a broadly weaker open with the Nasdaq leading the downside — $NQ=F -1.16%, $ES=F -0.53%, $YM=F -0.29%, $RTY=F -0.64%. The oil complex is the story: WTI +4.63% to $100.50, Brent +4.13% to $105.39, with Hormuz disruption still filtering through marine fuel markets.

Movers Before the Bell

  • ▸$USO +2.71% — tracking the crude surge; energy is the only pocket of green pre-open.
  • ▸$AAPL +0.78% — bucking the tape as foldable iPhone chatter builds; Samsung reportedly bracing for the challenge.
  • ▸$AMD -1.75% — semis leading the risk-off, giving back recent gains on thin pre-open volume where large % moves can fade at the cash open.
  • ▸$TSLA -1.36% — high-beta names hit hardest as rates back up.
  • ▸$GLD -0.83% (with $SI=F -5.65% in futures) — precious metals slammed by the dollar/yield combo post-PPI. The silver move especially is one to watch for follow-through or a snap-back at the open.
  • ▸$NVDA -0.79%, $META -0.22%, $GOOGL -0.11% — mega-cap tech uniformly offered.

Still Ahead Today

Lagarde and the ECB decision headline the European session and will steer FX and rate expectations into the US afternoon. Watch for verified prints on Initial Jobless Claims (prior 204k) and Continuing Claims (prior 1.771M) once official data lands — both were on the 8:30 slate but remain unavailable.

Game Plan

$SPY closed at $762.40, indicated near $760.55. Key levels: $758 (first support, aligns with -0.4% gap fill zone), $762 (prior close, resistance on any bounce), $755 (breakdown trigger). Trade idea: fade rips into $762 unless crude cools; a break of $758 opens $755 quickly. Energy long / semis short pair remains the cleanest expression of today's tape.

Not investment advice.

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