00:00all right green arrows across the board following the sell-off yesterday s&p futures up by four
00:12tenths or 0.4 percent here today dow futures up by 0.17 percent and the nasdaq leading the way
00:19higher at 0.77 percent let's take a look at some cues from last session on wednesday information
00:27technology consumer discretionary and communication services were in the green while others saw
00:33declines which was led by energy health care real estate and financials u.s stock futures are inching
00:41higher on thursday ahead of the uh after the markets ended lower on wednesday i beg your pardon
00:46mid-growing concerns regarding a hiring recession following the november jobs report which was
00:51released on tuesday traders and investors will be looking forward to the november consumer price
00:56index which is due later today as a key inflation read that could provide the much-needed catalyst
01:02for markets to set the tone for the final few trading days of the year meanwhile the 10-year treasury bond
01:09yielded 4.13 percent and the two-year bond was at 3.46 percent now we have several stocks in focus here
01:17for you today the first one is going to be accenture ticker acn um accenture are down 0.27 percent
01:27overnight looking at the chart now closed at 273 74 currently sitting at 265 98 it's actually down
01:35more than that now ahead of the company's uh first or fiscal first quarter results before the market opens
01:40on thursday so we actually have those results now uh the estimate was 373 on the eps the actual was
01:49394 so we got a beat there um let me actually pull it up in pro and i'll get you those sales numbers but
01:55looks like a uh mixed report there for accenture it did initially trade higher before reversing and
02:00going lower i think that conference call is actually ongoing uh right now the next stock on our list is
02:07going to be micron and that's probably why we're seeing some green arrows here today
02:11semiconductor giant micron ticker mu is up 9.61 percent in the overnight trade that actually took
02:18another leg higher here uh recently in the pre-market so it's up more than that now um
02:24following better than expected first quarter performance with a strong outlook for the second
02:29quarter and we'll dive into micron when we take a look at it in pro here it was definitely the guide
02:36uh that really caused us to trade higher i mean it was it was a good earnings beat on the top and
02:42the bottom line but really the guide is is what did it and this has been a common theme what we've
02:47been talking about uh recently let me go ahead and actually pull this up here real quick because
02:52it's worth mentioning so the eps beat 478 beat the estimate of 395 sales of 13.64 billion beat the
03:00estimate of 12.8 billion that was just for the last quarter q2 sales the estimate was 14.16 billion
03:07they guided to 18.3 to 19.1 so just a just a massive guide higher uh and that's why we're seeing micron
03:16trade so well here this morning that stock is definitely going to be one of the stocks in focus
03:21fedex is our next stock on that list that's ticker fdx it's down 0.07 percent basically unchanged in the
03:29pre-market ahead of the company's fiscal second quarter results after the market close on thursday
03:33so we're going to get fedex tonight analysts expect the company to post 4.10 per share on revenue of
03:3922.79 billion the next stock on our list here is furniture company miller knoll we don't really ever
03:45talk about this once it's exciting that it's on the list here ticker is mlkn and it was up 7.02 percent
03:52following the company's better than expected second quarter performance and robust guidance
03:57for the current quarter the last stock on our list is going to be nike ticker nke shares were up 0.44
04:04percent overnight ahead of the company's fiscal second quarter results after the market closed
04:09on thursday leading analysts expect the company to post 38 cents per share in earnings on revenue of
04:1412.22 billion
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