{"id":10913,"date":"2009-06-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"stock-futures-flat-ahead-of-madoff-sentencing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2009\/stock-futures-flat-ahead-of-madoff-sentencing.html","title":{"rendered":"Stock futures flat ahead of Madoff sentencing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Dow Jones futures dipped 0.1 percent, S&amp;P 500 futures were down 0.01 percent while Nasdaq futures<a class=\"kLink\" target=\"undefined\"><\/a> traded 0.02 percent higher on Monday morning at 4:45 a.m. EDT, pointing to a flat opening for Wall Street&#8217;s main equity indexes.                 <\/p>\n<p> With corporate earnings <a class=\"kLink\" target=\"undefined\"><\/a>and economic data calendars virtually void of potentially market-moving events, the focus will be on the sentencing of confessed swindler Bernard Madoff.<\/p>\n<p> At a court hearing due to begin at 10 a.m. EDT, U.S. District Judge Denny Chin is expected by legal observers to sentence Madoff, 71, to an effective life term in prison.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/us.rd.yahoo.com\/dailynews\/rss\/business\/*http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20090629\/bs_nm\/us_markets_stocks\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Dow Jones futures dipped 0.1 percent, S&amp;P 500 futures were down 0.01 percent while Nasdaq futures traded 0.02 percent higher on Monday morning at 4:45 a.m. EDT, pointing to a flat opening for Wall Street&#8217;s main equity indexes. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2410,4331,13599,3676,1363,4815,13595,420,10110,13597,8966,13598,2077,13596,4326,4766,4464],"class_list":["post-10913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-amp","tag-bernard-madoff","tag-calendars","tag-corporate-earnings","tag-court-hearing","tag-district-judge","tag-dow-jones-futures","tag-dow-jones","tag-economic-data","tag-equity-indexes","tag-judge-denny-chin","tag-legal-observers","tag-monday-morning","tag-nasdaq-futures","tag-reuters","tag-swindler","tag-wall-street"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}