Episode 2026-06-08

You're listening to Seven Horns AI — your AI-powered market update. It's Monday, June eight, twenty twenty-six, and we're bringing you a pre-market preview at just after six AM Eastern. Overnight, Asian markets reacted sharply to Friday's Wall Street sell-off. Japan's Nikkei closed down approximately three point eight five percent, a significant decline mirroring the US tech rout. The Hang Seng in Hong Kong also closed lower, between zero point six percent and one point two percent. However, ETF proxies for these regions are now showing modest fractional gains in US pre-market trading, suggesting a tentative stabilization and no further acceleration of selling pressure. Here in the US, futures are indeed pointing to a cautiously firmer open this morning. S&P five hundred futures are currently up about three-tenths of a percent, indicating a slight recovery from Friday's sharp losses. Nasdaq one hundred futures are showing a stronger bounce, gaining roughly two-thirds of a percent. Dow futures, however, are essentially flat, ticking down by about one-tenth of a percent. This suggests a selective, rather than broad, rebound after Friday's widespread selling, with the EFA developed international ETF also showing modest fractional gains in pre-market. Friday's rout was fueled by a stronger-than-expected May jobs report, showing the US economy added one hundred seventy-two thousand jobs, nearly double the consensus estimate. This "good news is bad news" scenario reignited fears