Stock futures are steady in overnight trading after market ends wild week in the green

Stock futures are steady in overnight trading after market ends wild week in the green

Stock futures climbed in overnight trading on Sunday as investors braced for the last week of a volatile September. Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 80 points. S&P 500 futures rose 0.2% and Nasdaq 100 futures were little changed. Wall Street is coming off a roller-coaster week amid a slew of concerns from the debt crisis of China's real estate giant Evergrande to the Federal Reserve's signal on rollback in monetary stimulus, and to Beijing's crackdown on cryptocurrencies. Still, major averages managed to wipe out steep losses earlier in the week and eke out small gains. The blue-chip Dow finished the week 0.6% higher, breaking a three-week losing streak. The S&P 500 rose 0.5% on the week, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite edged up 0.02% last week. "Equity markets continue to reflect a tug-of-war between bulls and bears," Mark Hackett, chief of investment research at Nationwide, said in a note. "The market recovery indicated that the buy-the-dip mentality remains." So far, September is living up to its reputation for volatility and weakness as major averages have all registered modest losses. The S&P 500 is off by 1.5%, on track to post its first negative month since January. The