Futures Idle as Wall Street Waits for the Fed — and Watches the Warsh Succession Trade
Stock-index futures were little changed into the new week as investors weigh the policy path, with strategists now openly pricing leadership risk at the Federal Reserve.
U.S. equity futures were broadly flat following a quiet week, with positioning frozen ahead of clearer signals on the Fed's rate trajectory. Commentary around a potential Warsh-led Fed is injecting an institutional-credibility variable into rates markets alongside conventional data dependency.