Stock Futures Point Higher After US Captures Venezuelan President Maduro; Energy Shares, Precious Metals Jump

Stock futures rose Monday, with shares of several energy companies jumping, after the U.S. military seized Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro over the weekend. 

Nasdaq 100, S&P 500, and Dow Jones Industrial Average futures were up 0.8%, 0.3%, and 0.1%, respectively.

Early Saturday morning, U.S. armed forces entered Venezuela and captured Maduro, who had been indicted during the first Trump administration on drug trafficking charges and is set to appear in federal court in New York today. President Donald Trump said Sunday night that the U.S. was “in charge” of Venezuela, which has the world’s largest oil reserves.

West Texas Intermediate futures, the U.S. crude oil benchmark, were 0.5% higher Monday at $57.65 per barrel, while shares of Chevron (CVX), the only U.S.-based oil company currently active in Venezuela, soared 6.5% before the bell.

Shares of several other oil producers, refiners, and oilfield-services firms rose sharply, including Halliburton (HAL), up 10%; SLB (SLB), 9%; ConocoPhillips (COP), 8%; Valero Energy (VLO), 8%; Baker Hughes (BKR), 7%, and Marathon Petroleum (MPC), 7%.

On Friday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average and benchmark S&P 500 finished up a respective 0.7% and 0.2% to begin 2026 trading. The indexes snapped four-session skids after setting record closing highs on Christmas Eve, although the tech-heavy Nasdaq ended fractionally lower and saw its losing streak extend to five.

Shares of several AI chipmaker companies rose Friday and were continuing gains, including Micron Technology (MU), up 4% in premarket trading; Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), 3%; and Intel (INTC), 4.5%. Nvidia (NVDA), the world’s most valuable public company, was up more than 1% before CEO Jensen Huang was set to speak this afternoon at CES 2026 in Las Vegas, where AMD CEO Lisa Su also is slated to give a keynote address Monday night.

Prices of precious metals were jumping, with gold futures up more than 2% to $4,430 an ounce and silver futures more than 5% higher at $74.70 an ounce.

The 10-year Treasury yield, which influences interest rates on a variety of commercial and consumer loans, fell to 4.17% from Friday’s close around 4.19%.

Bitcoin was trading at nearly $93,000, up from weekend lows around $89,300. The U.S. dollar index, which tracks the value of the greenback against a basket of foreign currencies, advanced 0.2% to 98.63.