Dow Futures Tumble as UnitedHealth Earnings Miss. S&P 500, Nasdaq Rising.

Dow Futures Tumble arsenic UnitedHealth Earnings Miss. S&P 500, Nasdaq Rising.

Stock futures were diverging sharply arsenic Dow futures tumbled portion the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 roseate successful premarket trading Thursday arsenic investors weighed up caller net and signs that commercialized talks betwixt the U.S. and Japan got disconnected to a bully start.

Futures tracking the Dow Jones Industrial Average slumped 612 points, oregon 1.5%, aft UnitedHealth–one of the gauge’s 30 components–posted weaker-than-expected net and chopped its full-year outlook. S&P 500 futures were up 0.5%, and contracts tied to the Nasdaq 100 climbed 0.8%.

The blue-chip indexes had tumbled Wednesday aft spot shaper Nvidia said it would present request a licence to export immoderate of its processors to China, stoking worries astir commercialized tensions betwixt Washington and Beijing.