Stock futures are steady after U.S. attacks Venezuela, captures Nicolas Maduro: Live updates

Stock futures were dependable connected Sunday night, arsenic planetary markets reacted to the U.S.' onslaught connected Venezuela and seizure of person Nicolas Maduro.

Dow Jones Industrial Average futures traded 15 points higher. S&P 500 futures roseate 0.1%, and Nasdaq-100 futures precocious 0.2%.

Following the attack, Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were flown to New York — wherever they were charged with narco-terrorism conspiracy and different crimes. Drug trafficking, according to the indictment, "has enriched and entrenched Venezuela's governmental and subject elite."

Maduro's ouster comes much than a decennary aft helium came to power, succeeding longtime dictator Hugo Chavez successful April 2013. It besides raises questions astir what's adjacent for the state with the largest proven lipid reserves successful the world.

President Donald Trump said Saturday successful a quality league that the U.S. would "run" Venezuela "until specified clip arsenic we tin bash a safe, due and judicious transition." Secretary of State Marco Rubio appeared to locomotion backmost those remarks connected Sunday, however, noting the U.S. would usage leverage to conscionable argumentation goals. He besides did not accidental the U.S. would govern Venezuela directly.

To beryllium sure, immoderate connected Wall Street deliberation the interaction connected markets from the U.S. involution volition beryllium limited. Despite Venezuela's monolithic reserves, the state produces little than 1 cardinal barrels per day. That's less than 1% of planetary production.

BCA Research main strategist Marko Papic besides noted that the Venezuelan authorities is "stabilized" by the country's military.

"President Trump's assertion that the US volition 'run the country' and that helium is not acrophobic of 'troops connected the ground' should beryllium faded arsenic signals. The US volition apt negociate with the subject and the absorption successful the transitional phase," Papic wrote to clients.

Wall Street is coming disconnected a mixed session. The S&P 500 and Dow closed higher connected Friday — the archetypal trading time of the twelvemonth — portion the Nasdaq ended conscionable beneath the flatline.

This week, traders volition look retired for the merchandise of the December jobs study connected Friday. Economists polled by Dow Jones expect the system added 54,000 jobs past month.