Wall Street shares looked set to open higher on Monday and the dollar firmed at the start of a data-driven week, while the threat of U.S. tariff hikes made investors cautious in Europe.
S&P 500 futures ES1! were up about 1.2% and Nasdaq 100 futures NQ1! were 1% higher at 1218 GMT.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is likely to exclude a set of sector-specific tariffs while applying reciprocal levies on April 2, according to media reports over the weekend that helped sentiment in early trading.
The pan-European STOXX 600 SXXP ticked down 0.1%, with most of the region’s indexes lower except for Germany’s DAX, which rose 0.2% after data showed manufacturing output there increased for the first time in almost two years.
This week’s data releases include global purchasing managers’ surveys, the U.S. Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation reading, inflation data in Australia and Japan, a budget update in Britain, and major earnings in China.