{"id":189064,"date":"2026-02-20T04:19:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T09:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/world-shares-us-futures-advance-after-ai-fears-drag-wall-street-lower-wral-com\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T04:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T09:30:11","slug":"world-shares-us-futures-advance-after-ai-fears-drag-wall-street-lower-wral-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/world-shares-us-futures-advance-after-ai-fears-drag-wall-street-lower-wral-com\/","title":{"rendered":"World shares, US futures advance after AI fears drag Wall Street lower :: WRAL.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/ap\/9e92f-world-shares-us-futures-advance-after-ai-fears-drag-wall-street-lower\/\">World shares, US futures advance after AI fears drag Wall Street lower :: WRAL.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/ap\/9e92f-world-shares-us-futures-advance-after-ai-fears-drag-wall-street-lower\/\">https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/ap\/9e92f-world-shares-us-futures-advance-after-ai-fears-drag-wall-street-lower\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-20 04:19:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.wral.com\">www.wral.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>European shares rose on Friday despite mixed trading in Asia with major indexes like Germany&#8217;s DAX and the CAC 40 up by 0.2% and 0.7% respectively. Britain&#8217;s FTSE 100 also saw a 0.4% increase.<\/li>\n<li>The S&amp;P 500 futures were up 0.3%, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average futures saw a gain of 0.2%, indicating a positive sentiment in U.S. markets.<\/li>\n<li>Concerns over the impact of artificial intelligence on major companies and a potential U.S.-Iran conflict weighed on markets, with Tokyo\u2019s Nikkei 225 ending 1.1% down.<\/li>\n<li>South Korea\u2019s Kospi saw a significant 2.3% rise driven by defense contractors amid increased global military spending.<\/li>\n<li>The price of oil surged but later declined slightly, affecting related stocks and influencing Federal Reserve\u2019s potential interest rate decisions.<\/li>\n<li>The price of gold rose 1%, while Bitcoin gained 1.9% to $68,135.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World shares, US futures advance after AI fears drag Wall Street lower :: WRAL.com https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/ap\/9e92f-world-shares-us-futures-advance-after-ai-fears-drag-wall-street-lower\/&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":189065,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.wral.com\/da108213-69fb-5eae-894a-98746d49869c?w=1200&h=630","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-189064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189064"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189066,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189064\/revisions\/189066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}