5 things to know before the stock market opens Monday, August 19 [Video]

Here are five key things investors need to know to start the trading day:

1. Banner week

Stock futures were largely flat in premarket trading Monday after a banner week for the markets last week. The S&P 500 gained 3.9% last week, its best week of 2024, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Nasdaq Composite gained 2.9% and 5.2%, respectively. “Much like some of the last recoveries that we’ve had after pullbacks, this was a little game of ‘put the money back where it came from,'” SoFi’s Liz Young Thomas told CNBC last week. Follow live market updates.

2. On Target

3. Delay of game

A judge on Friday temporarily blocked the sports streaming venture by Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery and Fox.The service, called Venu and recently priced at $42.99 per month, was set to launch in time for the start of the NFL season. The injunction comes in response to a lawsuit by Fubo TV, …