Investors Await Key GDP, Inflation Data as US Futures Slightly Lower Friday Pre-Bell

08:06 AM EST, 02/20/2026 (MT Newswires) -- US stock futures are tracking slightly lower in Friday's premarket session as investors await key GDP and inflation data coming out later in the morning.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average futures, S&P 500 futures, and Nasdaq futures were off 0.2% each.

Oil prices were moving lower, with front-month global benchmarks North Sea Brent crude down 0.5% to $71.33 a barrel, and West Texas Intermediate crude declined 0.5% to $66.04 per barrel.

The US Bureau of Economic Analysis will release its Q4 GDP report at 8:30 am. Analysts are expecting annualized GDP growth to decelerate to 2.8%, from 4.4% in Q3, according to Bloomberg.

The Bureau will also release at the same time inflation data for December and Q4. Analysts polled by Bloomberg expect the annual core personal consumption expenditure price index to rise to 2.9% in December from 2.8% the previous month. On a monthly basis core PCE is expected to rise to 0.3% from 0.2% in November.

The personal consumption expenditure is expected to remain unchanged at 2.8% on an annual basis, and rise to 0.3% from 0.2% on a monthly basis.

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