Stock-index futures fall as investors await data on U.S. retail sales

U.S. stock-index futures fell Friday as investors gauged a mixed round of Chinese data and looked ahead to what’s expected to be a dismal round of figures on U.S. retail sales.

What are major indexes doing?

Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average
YM00,
-0.89%
were down 183 points, or 0.8%, at 23,351, while S&P 500 futures
ES00,
-0.86%
dropped 21.65 points, or 0.8%, to 2,825.25. Nasdaq-100 futures
NQ00,
-0.93%
lost 63.50 points, or 0.7%, to 9,016.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average
DJIA,
+1.62%
on Thursday erased an early loss to stage an 835-point U-turn to finish with…