Traders work on the floor of the American Stock Exchange (AMEX) at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, on Thursday, July 16, 2026.<\/p>\n
Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images<\/p>\n
Futures tied to the S&P 500 dropped in early trading on Tuesday, with investors bracing for a big week of mega-cap earnings and a Federal Reserve rate decision. <\/p>\n
S&P 500 futures<\/a> dipped 0.15% and Nasdaq 100 futures<\/a> fell 0.88%. Dow futures<\/a> rose by 93 points, or 0.18%.<\/p>\n Wall Street is coming off a choppy trading session. The\u00a030-stock Dow <\/a>advanced more than 260 points, or roughly 0.5%, and the S&P 500<\/a> eked out a slight gain, helped by a pullback in oil prices following a pause in fighting in the Middle East. <\/p>\n The Nasdaq Composite<\/a>\u00a0ended the day down 0.2%, as an unwind in semiconductor stocks weighed on the tech-heavy index, which spilled over into Asian markets overnight with South Korea’s Kospi temporarily halted after slumping 10.84%.<\/p>\n The tension in the market reflects uncertainty ahead of a big week for stocks with earnings results from Amazon, Meta Platforms and Microsoft in the calendar. The chip trade hinges on continued spending from the hyperscalers \u2014 even as the mega-caps themselves falter. Apple also reports this week. <\/p>\n A Federal Reserve rate decision is due Wednesday. Investors expect that the central bank will remain on hold, but will seek greater clarity on the path forward for monetary policy. Fed funds futures were last pricing in a quarter point hike in September, according to the CME FedWatch Tool. <\/p>\n “Our call is for no change,” Padhraic Garvey, <\/strong>regional head of research for the Americas at ING, said in a Tuesday morning note. <\/strong>“We see inflation expectations tame enough for comfort. Also, the structure of the curve does not shape up for a rate hiking cycle. Specifically, the 5yr is rich to the curve.” <\/p>\n “It’s unusual for the Fed to start a rate hiking cycle with the 5yr rich to the curve. If we’re wrong and the Fed does hike (whether at this meeting or the next), the curve structure suggests that any hikes delivered will be subsequently reversed, and the funds rate ends up lower than it is today within a 12-month window.”<\/p>\n On Tuesday, traders will monitor the release of a consumer confidence report. Quarterly results from Coca-Cola, UPS, Corning and Boeing are due before the bell.<\/p>\n Investors will also continue to watch oil prices and the bond market. International benchmark Brent crude<\/a> futures were last below $90 a barrel, amid a pause in fighting between the U.S. and Iran. The U.S. 10-year Treasury yield<\/a> had pulled back to around 4.65%.<\/p>\n Japan’s\u00a0Nikkei 225<\/a>\u00a0closed 3.95% lower, while South Korea’s Kospi<\/a> fell 10.84%. Australia’s benchmark S&P\/ASX 200<\/a> rose 0.60%. Mainland China’s CSI 300 closed 2.83% lower. <\/p>\n European stocks opened in broadly positive territory on Tuesday, bucking the negative trend set by Asian indices.<\/p>\n Shortly after the opening bell, the pan-European Stoxx 600 index was seen 0.2% higher, with all regional bourses and most sectors, except for oil and gas stocks, trading in the green.<\/p>\n London’s\u00a0FTSE 100<\/a>\u00a0opened 0.1% higher, while France’s\u00a0CAC 40<\/a>\u00a0added 0.4% and Germany’s\u00a0DAX<\/a>\u00a0added 0.5%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Traders work on the floor of the American Stock Exchange (AMEX) at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":964225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[6],"tags":[291588,68226,3453,4960,14827,133,64,81,6797,69384,91320,144,156,117,152483,250818,250817,87252,7995,2676,135,3747,14229,91322,143,91321,145,7996,36660,36661,15243,95914,134,16285,20674,14811,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-964224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-lco26u","tag-alphabet-class-a","tag-amazon-com-inc","tag-apple-inc","tag-boeing-co","tag-breaking-news-markets","tag-business","tag-business-news","tag-coca-cola-co","tag-corning-inc","tag-dow-jones-fut-sep25","tag-dow-jones-industrial-average","tag-france","tag-germany","tag-ice-brent-crude-oct25","tag-invesco-qqq-trust","tag-ishares-semiconductor-etf","tag-jetblue-airways-corp","tag-kospi-index","tag-london","tag-markets","tag-meta-platforms-inc","tag-microsoft-corp","tag-nasdaq-100-fut-sep25","tag-nasdaq-composite","tag-sp-500-fut-sep25","tag-sp-500-index","tag-sp-asx-200","tag-samsung-electronics-co-ltd","tag-sk-hynix-inc","tag-south-korea","tag-spdr-sp-500-etf-trust","tag-stock-markets","tag-suppress-zephr","tag-u-s-10-year-treasury","tag-united-parcel-service-inc","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=964224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/964225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}