Morning Juice – US Session Prep

Morning, Traders!
Happy Friday! It is the 19th of July, here are some things to look out for today.

Sentiment
US stock-index futures were little changed on Friday, while shares of Microsoft and CrowdStrike Holdings fell after a series of technical glitches disrupted services at airlines and banks worldwide.

Crowdstrike, a cybersecurity firm, fell in US premarket trading after warning that its software was causing computer systems to crash.
Microsoft shares fell 2% in premarket trading in the United States, despite the company’s announcement that it had resolved the cloud-services outage that had disrupted flights and banks around the world.
Shares of United Airlines and Delta Air Lines fell as flights were grounded or delayed.

Docket
08:30 ET
Canadian Retail Sales for May
MoM – Median Forecast: -0.6% | Prior: 0.7% | 0.4% / -0.6%
Core MoM – Median Forecast: -0.5% | Prior: 1.8% | Range: 0.4% / -1.1%

Speakers
10:40 ET
Fed’s Williams participates in a panel session on “A New Era for Monetary Policy” at an event hosted by the Central Reserve Bank of Peru (BCRP), Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee (RBWC), and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).
No text is expected, but there will be a Q&A.

13:00 ET
Fed’s Bostic gives closing remarks at a conference co-hosted by the Dallas and Atlanta Fed.
No text is expected, and there is also no Q&A

Good luck, have a good weekend!