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U.S. stock futures fall headed into big earnings week

U.S. stock-index futures fell Sunday, ahead of a big week of earnings reports.

As of 10:15 p.m. Eastern, Dow Jones Industrial Average futures YM00, -0.30% futures fell about 90 points, or 0.3%, while S&P 500 futures ES00, -0.57% declined 0.6% and Nasdaq-100 futures NQ00, -0.96% tumbled 1%. After sharp losses once trading began Sunday evening, all three indexes were improving slightly as the overnight trading session continued.

Futures for U.S. crude CLK22, +1.01%, meanwhile, rose to $108.04.

The U.S. stock market was closed Friday. For the week, the Dow DJIA, -0.33%  lost 0.8%, recording its third straight week of losses, while the S&P 500  SPX, -1.21% shed 2.1% and the Nasdaq Composite  COMP, -2.14% fell 2.6%, with both booking their second straight week of losses.

Investors are bracing for a flurry of quarterly earnings reports in the upcoming week, including Bank of America Corp. BAC, -3.22% on Monday morning, Netflix Inc. NFLX, -2.65% on Tuesday afternoon and Tesla Inc. TSLA, -3.66% on Wednesday afternoon. Eyes will also be on Twitter Inc. TWTR, -1.68%, which on Friday adopted a “poison pill” in the face of a takeover bid announced earlier in the week by Elon Musk.

A number of major banks, including Goldman Sachs Group Inc. GS, -0.10%, Morgan Stanley MS, +0.75% and Wells Fargo & Co. WFC, -4.51%, reported earnings last week, to mixed results.

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