India, April 13 -- Ongoing Middle East tensions, now in its second month, and a rebound in oil prices might continue to be the focus on Monday.
In the Asian trading session, the dollar strengthened on renewed geopolitical tensions and gold fell toward $4,700 an ounce. Brent crude prices were higher a around $102 a barrel.
Early signs from the U.S. Futures Index suggest that Wall Street might open lower.
As of 7.50 am ET, the Dow futures were losing 484.00 points, the S&P 500 futures were down 48.25 points and the Nasdaq 100 futures were sliding 182.25 points.
The U.S. major averages finished broadly up on Friday. The tech-heavy Nasdaq climbed 80.48 points or 0.4 percent to a more than one-month closing high of 22,902.89, the S&P 500 edg...