Major United States stock indexes traded lower during the premarket on Thursday after the Federal Reserve published its minutes from the July meeting a day before.
The country also published its latest business inventories data for June a day earlier, with the parameter marking an increase both on a monthly and yearly basis. Retail sales remained unchanged in July.
The Dow Jones declined 0.25% at 4:23 am ET. The Nasdaq 100 tumbled 0.36% at the same moment, while the S&P 500 fell 0.35%. The euro traded 0.10% lower against the dollar, selling for 1.01689 at 4:24 am ET.