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Aug 14 2026 5:39PM
Stock futures were mixed on Friday after a record-setting session, with two of the three major benchmarks on pace for their third consecutive weekly advance.

S&P 500 futures
 hovered just above the flatline, as Nasdaq-100 futures
 rose 0.2%. But Dow Jones Industrial Average futures
 edged lower, sliding 67 points, or 0.1%.

The S&P 500
 on Thursday hit an intraday all-time high of 7,816.70. The benchmark also closed at a record. The tech and communication services sectors were among the big winners in the index, rising roughly 1% each.

“The market is appropriately bullish right now,” Anastasia Amoroso, chief investment strategist at Partners Group, told CNBC’s “Closing Bell” in an interview, noting the strength in U.S. corporate earnings.

With more than 90% of S&P 500 companies having posted second-quarter results, earnings growth from the year-earlier period is tracking around 50%, according to FactSet.

Amoroso also noted that software has “rallied and rebounded … I think the market came to the realization that maybe we did not appropriately price in those risks.” Indeed, the iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF (IGV)
 is up around 28% over the past six months after tumbling more than 24% in the first quarter. IGV climbed more than 3% on Thursday.

The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite are headed for their third straight weekly advances. Heading into Friday’s session, the former is up 0.5%, while the latter has advanced 0.4%. The Dow, meanwhile, is down 0.4% week to date.

In Europe, the Stoxx 600
 moved lower in morning trade and was last seen just below the flatline. The German DAX
 was up 0.6%, but the French CAC 40
 and the U.K.’s FTSE 100
 slipped almost 0.1% and 0.2%, respectively. In Asia, Japan’s Nikkei 225 closed 0.59% higher, while South Korea’s Kospi
 rose 2.42%. Australia’s benchmark S&P/ASX 200
 fell 0.80% and mainland China’s CSI 300 closed flat.

There are no major earnings due Friday, but investors will have a look at July retail sales figures at 8:30 a.m. ET. Economists on average expect sales grew by 0.1% month over month, according to Dow Jones.