Episode 2026-06-17

You are listening to seven horns A I, your A I powered market update. Good morning. Today is Wednesday, June seventeenth, twenty twenty-six, and we are looking at the setup for the Wednesday trading session as the market prepares to open at nine thirty A M Eastern Time. Overnight, global markets provided a mixed handoff for Wall Street. In Japan, the Nikkei two twenty-five closed near record highs, gaining zero point seven two percent to sixty-nine thousand nine hundred and two, briefly crossing seventy thousand for a second consecutive day. This strength was supported by strong export growth. However, Chinese sentiment remained pressured as Hong Kong's Hang Seng index closed down zero point eight percent to twenty-four thousand two hundred and seventy-four. In Europe, the London Stock Exchange is currently open, and the developed international exchange traded fund proxy is ticking up zero point forty-seven percent, suggesting a constructive tone for European equities this morning. This mixed global backdrop brings us to U S futures, where we are seeing a notable reversal dynamic from yesterday's closing action. Leading the pre-market is the Nasdaq one hundred, with futures pointing to a sharp bounce, up one point seven one percent since yesterday's cash close. S and P five hundred futures are also pointing modestly higher, up zero point six seven percent. Meanwhile, Dow futures are giving back some of yesterday's record-setting gains, trading down zero point six six perc