U.S. stock index futures pointed to a lower open on Thursday as a jump in coronavirus cases fuels worries over the virus' impact on economic activity.
Around 7:07 a.m. ET, Dow Jones Industrial Average futures were down 200 points, indicating a loss of 177 points at the open. S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 futures also pointed to solid losses.
Cisco Systems was the worst-performing Dow stock, sliding nearly 5% in the premarket. Nike, Apple and Microsoft all fell at least 1%.
China said it confirmed 15,152 new cases and 254 additional deaths. Those figures include the ones reported earlier by Hubei province under its new diagnosis methodology. That brings the country's total death toll to 1,367 as the number of people infected jumped to nearly 60,000, according to the Chinese government.
"With the upward revision to the number of those afflicted, the answer we should all give when asked about the full impact of this virus and when it goes away is 'I don't know,'" said Peter Boockvar, chief investment officer at Bleakley Advisory Group.
Traders work during the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on October 2, 2019 at Wall Street in New York City.
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To be sure, the jump in cases may be due to the way Chinese authorities are counting them. Health authorities in Hubei province said Thursday that they changed the way they tabulate case totals — "clinically diagnosed" cases now count toward the "confirmed case" count, resulting in the sudden surge among the latter.
The major averages are coming off a record-setting session after notching all-time highs as investors tried to shrug off the uncertainty around the coronavirus. The Dow jumped more than 200 points on Wednesday while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq climbed 0.7% and 0.9%, respectively.
In corporate news, Cisco fell after the company reported another decline in overall revenue. In the fourth quarter, Cisco's revenue dropped by 4% on a year-over-year basis. That decline overshadowed a better-than-expected profit.
PepsiCo, Alibaba and Applied Materials all reported quarterly earnings that beat expectations. PepsiCo and Applied Materials rose slightly in the premarket, but Alibaba's stock dropped more than 1%.
On the data front, weekly jobless claims and U.S. inflation data are set for release at 8:30 a.m. Federal Reserve speeches by Dallas Fed President Robert Kaplan and New York Fed President John Williams on the economic outlook and monetary policy will also be of interest to investors.
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