USA: Wall Street: Why US investors are now betting on water

Municipal companies and utilities could also stand to profit from water futures, the CME argues. In California where water is scarce, water prices often soar overnight because of wildfires or droughts.

Costs for the next six months can be estimated only roughly, as Nasdaq Senior Manager Patrick Wolf told Bloomberg. He's in charge of the futures in California, the United States' largest water market.

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U.S. stock futures drop sharply after Wall Street's worst week since March

U.S. stock index futures dropped sharply late Sunday, suggestincontinued choppy trading Monday following Thursday's deep selloff andFriday's partial rebound. As of 10 p.m.Eastern, Dow Jones IndustrialAverage futuresYM00,  -1.40% were down more than 300 points, or 1.3%, while S&P 500 futuresES00, -1.27%and Nasdaq-100 futures NQ00, -0.73%fell as well. Dallas Fed President Robert Kaplan said Sunday that the U.S. economic recovery hinged on effective public health measures to contain the coronavirus pandemic. "The extent we do that well will determine how quickly we recover. We'll grow faster if we dothose things well," Kaplan told CBS News' "Face the Nation." "And rightnow, it's relatively uneven." Lasteek,Wall Street posted its worst week since March,with all three major indexes on Thursday seeing their sharpest one-daydrops since March 16. On Friday, The Dow Jones Industrial Average JIA, +1.90% gained 477.37 points, or 1.9%, to close at 25,605.54, while the S+1.30% added 39.21 points, or 1.3%, at 3.041.31, and the Nasdaq Composite IndexCOMP, +1.01%climbed 96.08 points, or 1%, to 9,588.81.

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USA - Wall Street Selloff? ; Dow Futures Point to Friday Bloodbath as Coronavirus Shock Hits Home

The U.S. futures market traded sharply lower overnight, extending a brutal selloff that has engulfed

Wall Street for the better part of three weeks. Dow Jones mini futures contracts were off by as much as 623 points to reach an intraday low of 20,321.00.

At the time of writing, the Dow Jones futures contract was down 522 points, or 2.5%, to 20,563.00.

USA-Dow Jones:Stock futures fall 200 points as coronavirus spreads all over the world during the weekend - by Paul Davidson

Dow futures fell more than 200 points Sunday in a sign more turmoil on Wall Street is likely this week amid reports the coronavirus is spreading in the U.S. and globally.

The broader Standard & Poor's 500 stock index and the tech-heavy Nasdaq each fell about 1%.

“Theconcern is just as high as it was last week, so the big swings and volatility are likely here to stay in the near term ” said Ryan Detrick, senior market strategist at LPL Ffinancial.

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