Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on April 30, 2026. <\/p>\n
NYSE<\/p>\n
U.S. stock futures rose on Friday morning after the S&P 500<\/a> and Nasdaq Composite<\/a> rose to new intraday and closing highs to round out trading for the month of April.<\/p>\n S&P 500 futures<\/a> advanced 0.13%, while Nasdaq 100 futures<\/a> were last seen flat. Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average<\/a> added 102 points, or about 0.2%.<\/p>\n Shares of Apple<\/a> climbed 3% in premarket trading. The consumer tech giant posted a fiscal second-quarter earnings and revenue beat<\/a>, but iPhone revenue fell short of estimates for the second time in three quarters.<\/p>\n The blue-chip Dow<\/a> rose 790.33 points, or 1.62%, during Thursday’s regular session. The broad-based S&P 500 popped 1.02%, closing above the 7,200 threshold for the first time ever, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq climbed 0.89%. <\/p>\n Both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq notched new record closing highs and their strongest monthly performances since 2020, respectively adding 10.4% and 15.3% on the month. The Dow rose 7.1% in April, marking its strongest monthly performance since November 2024.<\/p>\n A strong first-quarter earnings season, as well as hopes for easing tensions in the Middle East, have ultimately boosted stocks higher on the year. Even though the major averages took a dip on the commencement of the U.S. war with Iran, all three indexes are now trading well above where they began 2026.<\/p>\n Venu Krishna, head of U.S. equity strategy at Barclays, pointed to a strong economic growth outlook and an intact tech story as catalysts to keep this strong market rally going from here.<\/p>\n “The story is good, so we remain optimistic. The last thing I would say is that the pace of this recovery has been so strong in such a short period of time, it does leave some potential for a little bit of a breather in the short term,” he said on CNBC’s “Closing Bell: Overtime<\/a>” on Thursday afternoon. “But \u2026 I think the trajectory, the direction, is pretty strong.”<\/p>\n Chevron<\/a>, Exxon Mobil<\/a>, AutoNation<\/a>, Colgate-Palmolive<\/a>, Estee Lauder<\/a>, Lazard<\/a>, Moderna<\/a> and CBOE Global Markets<\/a> are some of the stocks reporting earnings before Friday’s opening bell. Traders will also look for the release of manufacturing data from April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on April 30, 2026. NYSE U.S. stock…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1308,9753,10,34,8830,27,14020,14023,9649,21,16,14021,518,14025,14024,8,14022,12,8797,23,15,14026,9,22,20,11,3156,2725,7,13],"class_list":{"0":"post-23003","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-stories","8":"tag-apple-inc","9":"tag-autonation-inc","10":"tag-breaking-news-markets","11":"tag-business-news","12":"tag-cboe-global-markets-inc","13":"tag-chevron-corp","14":"tag-colgate-palmolive-co","15":"tag-dax","16":"tag-diageo-plc","17":"tag-dow-jones-fut-sep25","18":"tag-dow-jones-industrial-average","19":"tag-estee-lauder-companies-inc","20":"tag-exxon-mobil-corp","21":"tag-ftse-100","22":"tag-ftse-mib","23":"tag-headlines","24":"tag-lazard-ltd","25":"tag-markets","26":"tag-moderna-inc","27":"tag-nasdaq-100-fut-sep25","28":"tag-nasdaq-composite","29":"tag-natwest-group-plc","30":"tag-news","31":"tag-sp-500-fut-sep25","32":"tag-sp-500-index","33":"tag-stock-markets","34":"tag-stoxx-600","35":"tag-suppress-zephr","36":"tag-top-stories","37":"tag-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@news\/116498839798739766","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23003","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=23003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}