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Investing.com -- U.S. stock index futures were mixed on Thursday as investors weighed lingering Middle East tensions, and focused on corporate earnings and further signs that U.S. inflationary pressures are easing.
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Wall Street looked set for a mixed open Thursday with further yo-yoing in technology stocks amidst a fresh batch of corporate earnings. Futures pointed to the Dow Jones opening 0.2%, while the S&P 500 was called down 0.2% and the Nasdaq looked set to bear the brunt of the selling, with...
US equity futures were mixed pre-bell Thursday as traders saw tech stocks trend downwards and the US
Wall Street futures pointed moderately lower pre-bell Thursday, as traders weighed tech issues and n
UnitedHealth Group crushed Q2 earnings forecasts amid lower-than-expected benefit costs and gave a big boost to its full-year outlook. Humana, Centene and CVS Health all got a sizable lift from the warm reception for UnitedHealth's earnings report.
Industrial conglomerate GE Aerospace (NYSE:GE) reported Q2 CY2026 results topping the market’s revenue expectations, with sales up 31.5% year on year to $13.35 billion. Its non-GAAP profit of $2.02 per share was 8.6% above analysts’ consensus estimates.
Wednesday, J.B. Hunt reported earnings per share of $1.91, up 45% year over year, from sales of $3.5 billion, up 19%.
US stock futures traded close to flat on Thursday as investors weighed encouraging inflation data, another strong round of corporate earnings and ongoing geopolitical tensions in the Middle East. Market attention also turned to a busy schedule of economic releases and earnings reports that could shape sentiment for the remainder of the week.
Stocks were on track to slide Thursday as the artificial-intelligence trade lost some momentum, with investors opting to take profit even though the broader macroeconomic environment is looking good for the market. Nasdaq 100 futures dropped 0.6%. Investors are questioning how long the AI boom will last–but still finding plenty of places to put their money in the market.
Investing.com - U.S. stock futures were largely steady on Thursday as softer inflation data continued to support hopes that the Federal Reserve can keep interest rates on hold.
For the quarter second quarter, Wall Street is looking for earnings per share of $1.86 from sales of $11.9 billion.
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<body><p>STORY: U.S. stocks closed higher on Wednesday, with the Dow gaining more than a quarter of a percent, the S&P 500 adding over a third of a percent and the Nasdaq climbing more than six-tenths of a percent.</p><p>A second day of solid bank earnings added momentum to an auspicious beginning to second-quarter reporting season.</p><p>BlackRock and Morgan Stanley both beat quarterly profit expectations, with shares of BlackRock advancing over 6.5% and Morgan Stanley also ending higher.</p><p>Strong earnings combined with more cooler-than-expected inflation data, in the form of June wholesale prices, helped lift stocks, says Melissa Brown, managing director of investment decision research at SimCorp.</p><p>"We saw some good earnings from the financial companies. And, you know, on top of that, there's just still the same buzz around the AI trade, around what's happening with semiconductors. And there's, we haven't really seen a lot of bad news. The inflation news has been better than expected, although I would argue still not good. So inflation is still higher than the Fed's target, even though it has come in a little bit lower than expected. But I think, you know, kind of all those things are conspiring to make it a good but not blowout day today."</p><p>Among the session's other stock moves, PayPal surged more than 17% after sources told Reuters that Stripe and private equity firm Advent International have jointly offered to acquire it.</p><p>And shares of United Airlines dipped in extended trading despite the carrier saying it expected full-year profit at the high end of its prior forecast, as the company's third-quarter outlook was short of Wall Street expectations.</p></body>
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