{"id":28764,"date":"2025-08-28T13:12:29","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T13:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/28764\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T13:12:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T13:12:29","slug":"5-things-to-know-before-the-stock-market-opens-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/28764\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Things to Know Before the Stock Market Opens"},"content":{"rendered":"

U.S. stock futures are mixed as investors review Nvidia’s (NVDA<\/a>) quarterly results, which saw the AI chipmaker post better-than-expected profit and revenue but miss on data-center sales, causing its shares to slip in premarket trading; Tesla (TSLA<\/a>) sales sank in Europe for a seventh straight month; Snowflake (SNOW<\/a>) stock is surging as the cloud software seller lifted its outlook amid strong sales; and Dollar General (DG<\/a>) shares are jumping as the discount retailer reported strong results and lifted its full-year outlook. Here’s what investors need to know today.\n<\/p>\n

1. US Stock Futures Mixed After Nvidia Results <\/p>\n

U.S. stock futures are mixed as investors digest earnings from Nvidia and other tech firms.\u00a0Dow Jones Industrial Average<\/a>\u00a0futures are pointing slightly higher after\u00a0gaining 0.3%<\/a>\u00a0Wednesday, while\u00a0S&P 500<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Nasdaq<\/a>\u00a0futures are fractionally lower after each added 0.2% yesterday, with the S&P 500 closing at a record high. Bitcoin\u00a0(BTCUSD<\/a>) is trading higher at over $113,000. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note is little changed. Oil futures are lower. Gold futures are higher.\n<\/p>\n

2. Nvidia Stock Slips as Data-Center Sales Come Up Short of Expectations <\/p>\n

Nvidia (NVDA<\/a>) shares are slipping nearly 2% in premarket trading after the world’s most valuable public company reported data-center revenue that fell short of analysts’ expectations even though top- and bottom-line numbers<\/a> topped them.\u00a0The AI chipmaker posted adjusted earnings<\/a> of $1.05 per share on revenue that soared 56% year-over-year to a record $46.74 billion in the second quarter, above Visible Alpha consensus. Data-center sales climbed to a record $41.1 billion but slightly missed estimates.\n<\/p>\n

3. Tesla European Sales Plummet for Seventh Straight Month <\/p>\n

Tesla’s (TSLA<\/a>) European sales tumbled for a seventh straight month in July,\u00a0according to data from the European Automobile Manufacturers Association, or ACEA.\u00a0Tesla’s new car registrations, which serve as a proxy for sales, were down 40% year-over-year on the continent at 8,837, including a 42% drop in European Union<\/a> countries, while Chinese rival BYD’s soared 225%. Tesla’s European sales declined sharply once again<\/a> even though battery-electric vehicle registrations in the region were 39% higher. Tesla shares are down less than 1% in premarket trading.\n<\/p>\n

4. Snowflake Stock Surges on Strong Results, Upbeat Outlook <\/p>\n

Snowflake (SNOW<\/a>) shares are jumping 13% in premarket trading after the cloud software provider posted better-than-expected second-quarter results and an optimistic outlook. The company reported adjusted\u00a0earnings per share<\/a>\u00a0of $0.35 on $1.14 billion in revenue, topping Visible Alpha expectations of $0.27 and $1.09 billion, respectively. Snowflake also lifted its fiscal 2026 product revenue projection to year-over-year growth of 27%, from its\u00a0prior projection of 25% growth<\/a>. Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy cited the “enormous opportunity” that AI is providing the company.\n<\/p>\n

5. Dollar General Stock Soars as Discount Retailer Raises Full-Year Projections <\/p>\n

Dollar General (DG<\/a>) shares are surging 6.5% in premarket trading after the\u00a0discount retailer<\/a>\u00a0posted strong sales results and lifted its outlook. Dollar General reported second-quarter EPS of $1.86 on sales that increased 5% year-over-year to $10.73 billion. Analysts surveyed by Visible Alpha had expected $1.56 and $10.67 billion, respectively. Same-store sales growth of 2.8% also was ahead of expectations. The company also lifted its full-year projections for sales, same-store sales, and EPS. Dollar General shares are up 45% this year entering Thursday trading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. stock futures are mixed as investors review Nvidia’s (NVDA) quarterly results, which saw the AI chipmaker post…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[79,18,19,17,188],"class_list":{"0":"post-28764","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-markets","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-markets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}