If you looked at futures early in the morning (about an hour or two prior to market open, you could see a very
read deep decline (at night, the futures were as low as 2686 but recovered to 2702 by 6 am):
Please
read the entire article and consider the trend against what has been learned by scholars like Joshua Goldstein and Steven Pinker about death rates from war and violence;
declines in
deep poverty as shown by Max Roser; and child mortality rates from the World Health Organization.