Stock futures were flat early Thursday after a volatile overnight session with wild swings in and out of negative territory.
Futures for the Dow Jones Industrials slid 68 points, or 0.3%, to begin Thursday at 26,617.
Futures for the S&P 500 slumped 11.25 points, or 0.4%, to 3,220.
Futures for the NASDAQ Composite backpedaled 72 points, or 0.7%, to 10,757.
Earlier, futures opened Wednesday evening in the green, but comments from President Donald Trump that he would not commit to a peaceful transfer of power should he lose the election appeared to hit sentiment.
So far in September the S&P 500 has declined 7.5%, while the Dow has shed 5.8%. The NASDAQ has been the relative outperformer, registering a loss of 9.7% as investors rotate out of Big Tech. Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Alphabet and Microsoft are all down at least 11% in September.
Looking ahead to Thursday, investors will get a read on the state of the economic recovery when U.S. jobless claims are released at 8:30 a.m. ET. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin will also appear before the Senate banking committee.
Overseas, in Japan, the Nikkei 225 dumped 1.1% Thursday, while Hong Kong, the Hang Seng index gave back 1.8%.
Oil prices sank three cents to $39.90 U.S. a barrel.
Gold prices dulled $6.80 to $1,861.50.