Dow Jones Industrial Average futures were up 14 points, S&P 500 futures rose 0.3%, and Nasdaq-100 futures advanced 0.7%. US energy stocks surge in premarket on Venezuela developments Among individual stocks, US oil companies were by far the biggest risers in the S&P 500 in premarket trading. Chevron, the last US oil major still operating in Venezuela, was up around 8% ahead of the open, even as crude prices were largely unmoved. The rally in US oil companies indicates that investors are assessing developments in Venezuela, which could potentially influence future production, policy direction, or strategic positioning for US energy firms. He also told US oil companies will spend billions fixing Venezuela's "broken" oil infrastructure, "taking a tremendous amount of wealth out of the ground," in a press conference Saturday.

Source: Mint January 05, 2026 15:40 UTC