Boeing Stock Declines After Plane Crash in India. Boeing shares are 8% lower in premarket trading after one of its planes crashed in India. Air India said that the Boeing 787-8

Stocks were under pressure around the globe, with U.S. index futures down sharply after Israel launched strikes across Iran that it said were aimed at crippling the country's nuclear program. Oil prices soared,

Stock futures fell sharply early Thursday, pointing to a rocky open as Wall Street grapples with a tragic plane crash involving Dow component Boeing (BA) and digests a blockbuster earnings report from software giant Oracle (ORCL).

The major averages posted modest gains on Thursday, placing them on track for a winning week. Softer-than-anticipated inflation reports helped lift stocks.

U.S. stock futures and most European stock markets were near flat and Asian indexes ended mixed as investors await result of the U.S.-China trade talks.

India's National Stock Exchange on Wednesday became the second exchange in a week to secure regulatory approval to launch electricity futures contracts, a move experts say could help struggling power utilities improve their finances.

The June futures contract for the Cboe Volatility index, known as the VIX, is jumping 17% to 21.95 early Friday as markets take a bearish turn following Israel's attack on Iran. The VIX measures the expected volatility of the S&P 500 and tends to rise when investors become more fearful,