Stock-index futures fell Monday, with tech-related shares set to again feel the brunt of selling pressure as government bond yields extended their climb following Senate passage of a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package.

What are major benchmarks doing?

• Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average YM00, -0.11% were down 12 points, or less than 0.1%, at 31,453.
• S&P 500 futures ES00, -0.64% fell 19.25 points, or 0.5%, to 3,819.75.
• Nasdaq-100 futures NQ00, -1.46% dropped 178.25 points, or 1.4%, to 12,485.50.

Stocks are coming off a volatile week that ended Friday with a sharp rebound from the previous session’s rout. The moves left the Dow DJIA, +1.85% with a weekly gain of 1.8%, while the S&P 500 SPX, +1.95% rose 0.8%. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite COMP, +1.55% posted its biggest intraday rebound in a year on Friday, but suffered a weekly fall of 2.1%.

What’s driving the market?

Expectations that aggressive fiscal spending coupled with an rapidly reopening economy as vaccine rollouts continue have fueled expectations for at least a near-term surge in inflation. That, in turn, has contributed to a rise in bond yields which has helped fuel a rotation away from growth-oriented stocks with high valuations toward stocks that have been left behind in the stock market’s post-COVID recovery.

“Despite the indices having occasional stellar days, the overall trend of the market remains in a pullback phase that has yet to be completed,” said Peter Cardillo, chief market economist at Spartan Capital Securities, in a note.

“The adjustment to higher yields, however, has created new leadership resulting in an uneven market performance that will continue until yields begin to level off. We
reiterate that the pullback is likely to result in an 8% -10% decline from the market’s 52-week highs,” Cardillo wrote.

The 10-year Treasury yield TMUBMUSD10Y, 1.602% touched the highest level in over a year Friday before pulling back somewhat, booking its fifth straight weekly rise. Yields, which move in the opposite direction of prices, continued to increase, with the rate on the 10-year note up 3.2 basis points at 1.592%.

The Senate on Saturday narrowly passed a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package, which now goes back to the Democratic-controlled House. The House is expected to approve it by the end of the week, giving President Joe Biden an early legislative victory.

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Which companies are in focus?

• DuPont de Nemours Inc. DD, +1.89% announced an agreement Monday to buy Laird Performance Materials from private-equity firm Advent International for $2.3 billion in cash. DuPont shares rose 2% in premarket trade.
• General Electric Co. is nearing a $30 billion-plus deal to combine its aircraft-leasing business with Ireland’s AerCap Holdings NV, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the talks. GE shares rose 2.8%.

How are other assets faring?

• The dollar was trading up 0.4%, as measured by the ICE U.S. Dollar Index DXY, 0.32%, to 92.30.
• Oil futures ticked 0.2% higher with the U.S. benchmark CL.1, 0.41% trading near $66.20 a barrel, after crude for April delivery settled at its highest since 2019 on Friday.
• Gold futures GC00, -0.78%  lost 0.9%, to trade near $1,683.50
• European stocks traded higher, with the pan-European Stoxx 600 index SXXP, 0.96%  up 0.9% and London’s FTSE 100 UKX, 0.16%  0.2% higher.
• Stocks pulled back in Asia: the Shanghai Composite SHCOMP slid 2.3%, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index HSI lost 1.9%, and China’s CSI 300 000300 tumbled 3.5%. Japan’s Nikkei 225 NIK shed 0.4%.

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