Futures extend selloff after rough week

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Concerns around global growth reverberated across world markets, with Chinese shares marking their biggest slump since the pandemic-led selling in February 2020 and European stocks falling to their lowest in over a month on fears of strict restrictions in China.[MKTS/GLOB]

U.S.-listed Chinese shares like JD (NASDAQ:JD).com Inc, Alibaba (NYSE:BABA) Group Holdings Ltd and Baidu Inc (NASDAQ:BIDU) declined between 2.9% and 4.4% in premarket trading.

Investors were also on edge at the start of a week that will see megacap companies like Google-parent Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Inc, Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ:MSFT), Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) owner Meta Platforms Inc, Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN) and Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL) publish quarterly results. Their shares fell between 0.5% and 1.0%.

Disappointing results from pandemic darling Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) along with surging bond yields pummeled high-growth stocks last week, bringing year-to-date losses in the tech-heavy Nasdaq to 17.9%. The benchmark S&P 500 is down 10.3% so far this year.

Traders are pricing in big moves by the Federal Reserve this year to control inflation after a series of hawkish remarks from policymakers. Fed Chair Jerome Powell last week gave a “go” sign to a half-point rate hike in May and signaled he would be open to “front-end loading” the U.S. central bank’s retreat from super-easy monetary policy.

Money markets expect the Fed to raise interest rates by a half point at the central bank’s next two meetings. [IRPR]

At 07:04 a.m. ET, Dow e-minis were down 236 points, or 0.7%, S&P 500 e-minis were down 32.5 points, or 0.76%, and Nasdaq 100 e-minis were down 101.5 points, or 0.76%.

Among other stocks, Coca-Cola (NYSE:KO) Co slipped 1.1% even as its results beat quarterly revenue expectations.

Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR) gained 2.1% after reports that it kicked off deal negotiations with Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) Inc chief Elon Musk.