Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) at the opening bell in New York, on April 20, 2026. <\/p>\n
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S&P 500 futures<\/a> were little changed on Wednesday night after both the broad market index and Nasdaq Composite<\/a> rose to fresh records during the regular session.<\/p>\n S&P 500 futures<\/a> slipped 0.1%, while the Nasdaq 100 futures<\/a> were around the flatline. Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average<\/a> fell by 173 points, or 0.4%.<\/p>\n Some of the biggest movers on Wednesday night included IBM<\/a> and ServiceNow<\/a>, which were respectively trading 6%<\/a> and 13% lower<\/a> after reporting their latest results. Shares of Tesla<\/a> initially rose on better-than-expected earnings<\/a>. However, the stock later shed about 2% when CEO Elon Musk warned capital expenses would rise “substantially” as the electric vehicle maker moves into AI-powered self-driving cars and humanoid robots. <\/p>\n Both the broad market index and tech-heavy Nasdaq finished at record levels on Wednesday after President Donald Trump<\/a> extended the U.S. ceasefire<\/a> with Iran. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq rose 1.05% and 1.64%, respectively. The Dow Jones Industrial Average<\/a> gained 340.65 points, or 0.69%.<\/p>\n Late Tuesday afternoon, Trump said that the ceasefire extension was warranted due to Tehran’s government being “seriously fractured.”<\/p>\n Still, geopolitical relations in the region remain tense. A lack of commitment from Iran reportedly resulted in Vice President JD Vance<\/a> pausing his trip to join peace talks. Iran state media also reported that Tehran negotiators said they wouldn’t be present, calling talks with the U.S. a “waste of time.” And on Wednesday, Iran’s navy said that it had seized two container ships<\/a> in the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n Investor sentiment has also been strengthened by a strong earnings season so far. Of the 87 S&P companies that have reported so far, 81% have reported an earnings beat, while 76% have reported revenue that surprised to the upside.<\/p>\n “The thing that’s really difficult is we keep getting these very, very intense news headlines that give everyone a lot of pause, everyone a lot of heartburn. But at the end of the day, earnings estimates continue to rise, and that really kind of indicates that businesses are figuring out a way to muddle through all of this noise and manage through this uncertainty in a way that they can still deliver profit growth,” said Julie Biel, chief market strategist at Kayne Anderson Rudnick, on CNBC’s “Closing Bell: Overtime<\/a>” on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n Honeywell<\/a>, American Express<\/a>, Blackstone<\/a>, American Airlines<\/a> and Lockheed Martin<\/a> are among the stocks reporting earnings Thursday morning. Traders will also watch out for April’s S&P Global PMI manufacturing and services preliminary readings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) at the opening bell in New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[1548,9766,2883,10,34,17,38,21,16,8,1620,8395,19,2624,74,131,12,23,15,9,22,20,11890,11,2725,5614,7,13],"class_list":["post-19576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-american-airlines-group-inc","tag-american-express-co","tag-blackstone-inc","tag-breaking-news-markets","tag-business-news","tag-donald-j-trump","tag-donald-trump","tag-dow-jones-fut-sep25","tag-dow-jones-industrial-average","tag-headlines","tag-honeywell-international-inc","tag-international-business-machines-corp","tag-iran","tag-j-d-vance","tag-jd-vance","tag-lockheed-martin-corp","tag-markets","tag-nasdaq-100-fut-sep25","tag-nasdaq-composite","tag-news","tag-sp-500-fut-sep25","tag-sp-500-index","tag-servicenow-inc","tag-stock-markets","tag-suppress-zephr","tag-tesla-inc","tag-top-stories","tag-united-states"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}