Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., August 4, 2026. <\/p>\n
Jeenah Moon | Reuters<\/p>\n
Futures tied to the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average gained early Wednesday, looking to build on a huge rally from the prior session. Traders also pored through the latest corporate earnings reports from companies such as SpaceX and AMD.<\/p>\n
Dow futures<\/a> were up 172 points, or 0.3%. S&P 500 futures<\/a> added 0.4%. Nasdaq-100 futures<\/a> were flat on the day. <\/p>\n SpaceX<\/a>\u00a0shares plunged 11% after the rocket company released its first quarterly report since going public in June. Elon Musk<\/a>‘s space firm said its\u00a0capital expenditures jumped sixfold<\/a>\u00a0to $18.4 billion in the second quarter. This figure was ahead of analyst expectations, with the majority of the spending going towards AI.<\/p>\n Chip giant AMD<\/a> also dropped 7% in premarket after posting adjusted earnings that only came slightly ahead of the Street’s estimates.<\/p>\n However, Dow member Disney rose more than 3% on better-than-expected earnings for its fiscal third quarter. <\/p>\n Markets jumped Tuesday, lifted by solid earnings and comments from Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent that the U.S. and Iran could be closing in on a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.\u00a0The S&P 500<\/a> rose 1.8% to close above 7,700 for the first time, and the Dow<\/a> gained more than 900 points for another record close.<\/p>\n Oil fell Tuesday following Bessent’s comments, though prices bounced slightly on Wednesday. West Texas Intermediate<\/a>\u00a0futures for September delivery rose about 0.7% to $76.30 per barrel.\u00a0Brent crude<\/a>\u00a0futures for October delivery, the international benchmark, were up 1.6% at $80.63 a barrel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., August…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[252252,199379,10387,941,114,357,15465,1657,75142,1761,1012,20298,2576,350,3449,85,145063,87,98708,46,1437,7258,190,1763,1008,864,9505,1762,3310,2635,193809,144657,28317,1760,29170,15574,1032,11603,30938],"class_list":["post-575481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-cl26u","tag-lco26v","tag-advanced-micro-devices-inc","tag-breaking-news-markets","tag-business","tag-business-news","tag-caterpillar-inc","tag-china","tag-doordash-inc","tag-dow-jones-fut-sep25","tag-dow-jones-industrial-average","tag-e-l-f-beauty-inc","tag-eli-lilly-and-co","tag-elon-musk","tag-hang-seng-index","tag-il","tag-invesco-qqq-trust","tag-iran","tag-ishares-semiconductor-etf","tag-israel","tag-japan","tag-kospi-index","tag-markets","tag-nasdaq-100-fut-sep25","tag-nasdaq-composite","tag-osaka","tag-palantir-technologies-inc","tag-sp-500-fut-sep25","tag-sp-500-index","tag-scott-bessent","tag-space-exploration-technologies-corp","tag-spdr-dow-jones-industrial-average-etf-trust","tag-spdr-sp-500-etf-trust","tag-stock-markets","tag-suppress-zephr","tag-uber-technologies-inc","tag-united-states","tag-walt-disney-co","tag-wti-crude-sep25"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575481","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=575481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}