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":405887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[62069,4772,19334,941,357,6420,54,1761,1012,42,14359,2766,87,5102,11487,56642,190,1763,1008,43,1762,3310,4768,1760,29170,12520,40,38,41,39,1032],"class_list":{"0":"post-405886","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-american-airlines-group-inc","9":"tag-american-express-co","10":"tag-blackstone-inc","11":"tag-breaking-news-markets","12":"tag-business-news","13":"tag-donald-j-trump","14":"tag-donald-trump","15":"tag-dow-jones-fut-sep25","16":"tag-dow-jones-industrial-average","17":"tag-headlines","18":"tag-honeywell-international-inc","19":"tag-international-business-machines-corp","20":"tag-iran","21":"tag-j-d-vance","22":"tag-jd-vance","23":"tag-lockheed-martin-corp","24":"tag-markets","25":"tag-nasdaq-100-fut-sep25","26":"tag-nasdaq-composite","27":"tag-news","28":"tag-sp-500-fut-sep25","29":"tag-sp-500-index","30":"tag-servicenow-inc","31":"tag-stock-markets","32":"tag-suppress-zephr","33":"tag-tesla-inc","34":"tag-top-news","35":"tag-top-stories","36":"tag-topnews","37":"tag-topstories","38":"tag-united-states"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}