Stock futures fell on Monday as Wall Street awaits a number of key releases, including Nvidia earnings and the September jobs report. S&P 500 futures fell 0.2%, while Nasdaq-100 futures declined 0.3%. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures also dropped 94 points, or 0.2%. In the premarket, Alphabet rose more than 3% after Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway revealed it had taken a stake in the Google and YouTube parent. Meanwhile, bitcoin slid 0.5%, continuing to see losses after the cryptocurrency dropped below the $95,000 level on Friday. However, artificial intelligence chip darling Nvidia was down more than 1% in premarket trading ahead of the company’s third-quarter results, which are slated for release after the bell on Wednesday. The chipmaker and other names in the AI trade were a source of recent pressure as investors have grown anxious about stretched valuations. “A great earnings report with higher guidance from Nvidia really shouldn’t surprise anyone, but it may reinforce concerns over seemingly limitless AI capital budgets,” said Dennis Follmer, chief investment officer at Montis Financial. Investors will also be eyeing Thursday’s release of the September nonfarm payrolls reading, the first to be released in the wake of the economic data blackout from the U.S. government shutdown. “A surprisingly strong or surprisingly weak September jobs number would likely have a big impact on expectations for a December rate cut since the FOMC is so split on next steps,” Follmer also said. “It’s becoming increasingly likely that the Fed pauses in December to allow more time to be able to parse the next round of economic data now that the government is back open.” The Nasdaq Composite ended last week down 0.5%, led by declines in Alphabet as well as Amazon, Broadcom and Meta Platforms. The Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 eked out small gains last week, though they suffered steep declines on Thursday. U.S. Treasury yields inched lower on Monday as investors anticipated a packed week of delayed economic data releases. The 10-year Treasury yield was more than 2 basis points lower at 4.127%. The 2-year note yield was 1 basis point lower at 3.604%. The 30-year bond yield declined more than 2 basis points to 4.723%. Asia-Pacific markets traded mixed on Monday as investors assessed rising friction between Japan and China after Beijing warned its citizens about travel and study plans in Japan. Japan’s benchmark  slid 0.1% to close at 50,323.91, while the Topix lost 0.37% at 3,347.53, as tourism-exposed stocks slumped. South Korea’s Kospi jumped 1.94% to 4,089.25, while the small-cap Kosdaq added 0.53% to 902.67. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index lost 0.71%, while the mainland’s CSI 300 retreated 0.65% to 4,598.05. Australia’s benchmark S&P/ASX 200 closed flat at 8,636.4. Oil prices fell on Monday as loadings resumed at Russia’s Novorossiysk export hub after a two-day suspension at the Black Sea port that had been hit by a Ukrainian attack. Brent crude dropped 45 cents, or 0.7%, to $63.94 a barrel. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude was down 46 cents, or 0.8%, at $59.63. Both benchmarks rose more than 2% on Friday to end the week with a modest gain after exports were suspended at Novorossiysk and a neighbouring Caspian Pipeline Consortium terminal, affecting the equivalent of 2% of global supply. Novorossiysk resumed oil loadings on Sunday, according to two industry sources and LSEG data. Gold prices held steady on Monday, as investors awaited a raft of U.S. economic data this week for clues on the Federal Reserve’s interest rate trajectory after prices fell more than 2% in the last session on reduced rate cut expectations. Spot gold was steady at $4,078.44 per ounce as of 0859 GMT. U.S. gold futures for December delivery fell 0.4% to $4,080 per ounce. Spot prices are stable as investors buying gold as a hedge against the current market uncertainty after prices fell last week offset some of the pressure from a firm U.S. dollar and reduced Fed rate cut expectations, said Carlo Alberto De Casa, external analyst at banking group Swissquote.