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The Dow is on track to open at a fresh record high for the second day in a row after Caterpillar crushed earnings. Dow futures were up 1.2%, or 622 points. Caterpillar stock gained more than 11% in premarket trading, adding over 564 points to the blue chip index.

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Pre-Market Stock Futures: Futures are trading higher after a solid start to August, with all major indices finishing higher on Monday. The President tapping the brakes on attacks on Iran and a return to the negotiating table, combined with massive technology earnings and tumbling oil prices, was just the ticket for traders and investors to ... Here Are Tuesday’s Top Wall Street Analyst Research Calls: Apple, CoreWeave, eBay, Exxon Mobil, Intuit, Nebius Group, Palantir Technologies, SK hynix, and

Wall Street futures were given a new boost ahead of another packed earnings session, helped by a renewed fall in oil prices as hopes of a deal with Iran resurfaced. Dow Jones futures were up 453 points, or 0.9%, while those for the Nasdaq gained 0.9%. S&P 500 futures were 0.2% higher,...

Catapillar stock jumped on Tuesday as quarterly revenue topped $20 billion for the first time.

Caterpillar bulldozed Q2 earnings forecasts as the heavy equipment giant reported a $72 billion backlog, up 92% from a year ago. Long a global economic bellwether, Caterpillar has become a bellwether for the AI infrastructure boom amid soaring demand for its gas turbines to power data centers. The construction segment was Caterpillar's biggest growth driver in Q2, but growth was strong across the board.

US equity futures were tracking in the green on Tuesday as traders await the latest batch of corpora

US equity futures were higher pre-bell Tuesday as technology-related stocks were on the upswing, hig

GS, JPM, TRV and JNJ stand out as Dow hits a new high amid an AI-driven tech sell-off, with these blue-chip stocks backed by strong earnings growth.

Investing.com - U.S. stock index futures rose on Tuesday as investors weighed mixed signals surrounding renewed Middle East peace talks while awaiting quarterly results from Elon Musk’s SpaceX, with semiconductor shares finding support from another round of upbeat AI-related earnings.

Oil prices are also climbing Tuesday after a report of a ship being struck in the Strait of Hormuz

By Stefano Rebaudo Aug 4 (Reuters) - European stocks climbed alongside U.S. futures on Tuesday, although a rebound in oil prices underscored market scepticism that the U.S.-Iran war would be resolved

The semiconductor materials supplier reported second-quarter earnings per share of $1.19 from sales of $1.4 billion. Wall Street was looking for EPS of $1.07 and sales of just under $1.4 billion.

Wall Street futures pointed moderately higher pre-bell Tuesday after software giant Palantir Technol

Tesla and SpaceX have a lot of overlap. Both companies are all about AI and, of course, both are run by Elon Musk.

Markets are coming off a Big Tech rally, eyeing uncertainty in Middle East talks and SpaceX earnings after the bell.

Aug 4 (Reuters) - Nasdaq futures rose on Tuesday after strong forecasts from Palantir and ON Semiconductor reassured investors about AI-driven demand, while Middle East developments and U.S. earnings

U. S. stock futures traded higher on Tuesday following a positive start to the week on Wall Street, as investors weighed ongoing uncertainty surrounding the Middle East against another wave of corporate earnings.

Wall Street closed sharply higher on Monday to start August trading.

Kevin Warsh delivers "shock" while leaving Wall Street in awe.

U.S. stock futures rose while oil edged higher in early European trade as investors also await U.S. job openings data for the month of June.

Stocks stabilised in Asia on Tuesday after last week's tech-led rollercoaster ride as investors tracked a record day on Wall Street, while oil prices edged up after their recent plunge with Donald Trump and Iran giving conflicting views on peace talks.Oil prices rose around one percent, having plunged five percent Monday, on hopes for a US-Iran deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

REVIEW PREVIEW NEWSLETTER Fresh Record. Markets kicked off the first trading day of August on a strong note, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average closing at a new high on Monday. The pullback in oil prices held despite Iran’s denial of any peace talks taking place, allowing markets to look through the latest geopolitical back-and-forth and focus on a Magnificent 7 rally.

<body><p>STORY: U.S. stocks kicked off August with a rally on Monday, as the Dow added about one-and-a-third percent to close at a record high, the S&P 500 climbed one-and-a-half percent and the Nasdaq added more than two percent.</p><p>Communication services was the best performing of the 11 major S&P sectors, boosted by a 6% jump for Meta and a nearly 5% gain by Alphabet.</p><p>Jed Ellerbroek is portfolio manager at Argent Capital&nbsp;Management.</p><p>“Obviously, an extension from last week, in terms of the big cloud computing giants, doing well after their earnings report. And then I think we're also starting to see some semiconductor and AI data center CapEx beneficiary flow through and do well too. Nvidia, for example, is up I think a little more than 3% today. So, I guess a broad tech rally. And I think investors are becoming increasingly convinced that the return on investment from all of the CapEx spending that the big tech companies are doing has got an appealing ROI to it - both now and I think in the future, too. And so that's why we've seen those stocks rally so much here in the last three or four trading days. And that’s really an amazing contrast to just the week before.”'</p><p>:: Amazon</p><p>Sticking with tech, shares of Amazon gained about four-and-a-half percent as the company's market cap surpassed $3 trillion for the first time after its earnings results last week.</p><p>And shares of SpaceX, which will report its first quarterly results on Tuesday, jumped more than five-and-half percent. The stock has been trading below its $135 issue price for nearly three weeks after its debut in mid-June.</p><p>Meanwhile, crude prices settled down about 5% after President Donald Trump said on Sunday that talks with Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz would take place on Monday, though Iran disputed that talks were planned.</p><p>Lower oil prices helped push the S&P 500 Energy sector down more than one percent, making it the worst performing sector of Monday's session.</p></body>

ChargePoint Holdings, Inc. (CHPT) concluded the recent trading session at $5.52, signifying a +1.1% move from its prior day's close.

In the most recent trading session, Pan American Silver (PAAS) closed at $43.73, indicating a +1.44% shift from the previous trading day.

M-tron Industries, Inc. (MPTI) concluded the recent trading session at $83.57, signifying a +1.44% move from its prior day's close.

The latest trading day saw Dick's Sporting Goods (DKS) settling at $200.82, representing a +2.51% change from its previous close.