U.S. Stock Index Futures Drop on Outbreak Count Revision
Nurses in fangcang hospital, Wuhan City, Hubei Province on Feb. 12.
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U.S. stock index futures slid after the Chinese province at the center of the coronavirus epidemic reported a jump in new cases.
S&P 500 Index futures contracts expiring in March fell 0.9% as of 10:11 a.m. in London, after Hubei reported 14,840 new cases as it revised the method for counting infections. Contracts on the Dow Jones Industrial Average were 0.9% lower and those of the Nasdaq 100 dropped 1.1%.