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With U.S. stock markets set to open in two hours, Silgan Holdings Inc. $(SLGN)$ was up 8.4% in pre-market trading, and PennyMac Financial Services Inc. $(PFSI)$ was up 5.1%.

TELUS Corp. $(TU)$, Radnet Inc. $(RDNT)$, and Packaging Corp. of America $(PKG)$ were all posting gains of at least 3%. In early trading, Viking Therapeutics Inc. $(VKTX)$ and IonQ Inc. $(IONQ)$ had posted declines, falling 6.1% and 6.0%, respectively.

Meanwhile S&P 500 futures were up 0.31%, with futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average rising 0.31%. The Cboe Volatility Index futures were up 15.25%.

In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were up 0.72%, and gold futures were up 0.03%. Bitcoin was down 1.69% to $104,930.

The 10-Year Treasury yield climbed to 4.414%.

In the previous regular trading session, the S&P 500 and the Dow were down 0.39% and 0.61%, respectively. Stocks in Asia were mixed overnight, with Japan's NIKKEI 225 Index down 0.72% and China's Shanghai Composite Index up 0.62%.

In afternoon trading, stocks in Europe are up, with the STOXX Europe 600 Index rising 0.23% and the FTSE 100 Index rising 0.15% from the previous close.

U.S. stock markets open for trading at 9:30 a.m. ET.

Data source: Dow Jones Market Data, FactSet. Data compiled December 18, 2024.

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