U.S. Trade Deficit Narrowed in August

Pre-market futures are budding up slightly this morning, in what has become one of the most challenging weeks (so far) in recent memory. Major market indexes have come down since Thursday of last week, but at this hour the Dow is +73 points, +0.16%, the S&P 500 is +16 points, +0.24%, the Nasdaq +77, +0.31%, and the small-cap Russell 2000 is +8 points, +0.37%.We are not seeing the Housing Starts and Building Permits reports this morning, which we were hoping for once the federal government reopened last mont ...