At the Open: After what quickly became a risk-off week, dip buyers appeared to wade back into the market Friday morning, lifting futures contracts across U.S. benchmarks.

Wall Street chatter to conclude the first week of February surrounded very oversold conditions in software, pushback around some of the artificial intelligence (AI) competition predictions, and commentary around elevated spending still being a positive for the secular AI trade. Headlines otherwise continued to note another day of volatile metals trading, while the preliminary February University of Michigan consumer sentiment report is due shortly after the open. Treasury yields ticked higher. \#wallstreet #futurestrading #AI [www.ferventwm.com](https://www.ferventwm.com)