US stock futures have perked up this morning on news that China will cut its quarantine time on foreign travellers. This comes as Wall Street pared gains after initially rising from stronger-than-expected US durable goods data.

Oil traders have been kept on their toes all day Thursday. Markets had a lot of new information to digest, resulting in oil prices being whipped about over the past few hours.  

  Oil markets will be closely monitoring these events on this final day of March:

Markets enter another day of conflict in Ukraine, battered by uncertainty and the threat of more sanctions from the West.