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U.S. stock futures were swinging between gains and losses on Wednesday following Tuesday's mixed close. Futures of major benchmark indices were mixed.

While the monetary policy aspect of Wednesday's Federal Reserve meeting is expected to be routine, markets are bracing for a potentially tense press conference from Chair Jerome Powell as subpoenas and presidential pressure overshadow the proceedings.

The CME Group's FedWatch tool‘s projections show markets pricing a 97.2% likelihood of the Federal Reserve leaving the current interest rates unchanged in January.

Meanwhile, the 10-year Treasury bond yielded 4.24%, and the two-year bond was at 3.57%.

The SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE:SPY) and Invesco QQQ Trust ETF (NASDAQ:QQQ), which track the S&P 500 index and Nasdaq 100 index, respectively, were higher in premarket on Wednesday. The SPY was up 0.17% at $696.69, while the QQQ advanced 0.80% to $636.19.

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00:05All right, futures green for the most part here today.
00:10S&P futures up 0.23% ahead of Wednesday's open.
00:13Dow futures about...
00:15Although they're down 0.03%, and the NASDAQ leading the way higher...
00:200.85% likely on the back of those ASML earnings here.
00:24This morning.
00:26Let's go ahead and take a look at some cues from last...
00:29While energy, information, technology, and utility...
00:34...stocks recorded the biggest gains on Tuesday.
00:38Healthcare and financials bucked the...
00:39...trend to close lower.
00:42While the monetary policy aspect...
00:44...of Wednesday, or today's Federal Reserve meeting...
00:47...is expected to be routine...
00:49...markets are bracing for a potentially tense press conference from Fed Chair Jerome...
00:54...Powell as subpoenas and presidential pressure overshadow the proceedings.
00:59The CME Group's Fed Watch Tool projections show markets pricing in a 90...
01:04...42.7% likelihood of the Federal Reserve leaving the current rates unchanged.
01:09It's been like this pretty much all week.
01:11All of last week, it was at 95%.
01:13So we're...
01:14We're not anticipating any surprise there.
01:16Really, this is going to come down to Powell's press conference.
01:19After the decision is released, the 10-year Treasury bond yielded 4.24%.
01:24And the two-year bond was at 3.57%.
01:27We have several stocks in...
01:29...focus here for you today.
01:31First one here is going to be Starbucks.
01:33That was 0.76%.
01:34Lower in the pre-market on Wednesday as it was projected to post quarterly earnings...
01:39...of 59 cents.
01:41It actually did...
01:43It looks like I've...
01:44I've got earnings here 57 cents or 56 cents versus the 57 estimate.
01:49It looks like a little bit of a miss there.
01:50Starbucks, however, trading higher here in the pre-market.
01:54Next stock on our list is going to be Microsoft.
01:58And this is one of the big ones that...
01:59...reports after hours here today.
02:00That rose 0.87, basically flat.
02:04...ahead of earnings scheduled to be released after the closing bell.
02:08Analysts expect quarterly earnings...
02:09...of 397 per share on $80.27 billion for Microsoft.
02:14The next stock on our list is going to be Tesla that advanced 0.23% as it is...
02:19...projected to post quarterly earnings of 45 cents per share on revenue of $24.78 billion.
02:24Again, that comes after the closing bell here today.
02:28Seagate Technology...
02:29...ticker STX...
02:31...at jumped 10.02% after...
02:34...reporting better than expected revenue and earnings along with strong guidance.
02:38Now, the interesting...
02:39...ticker STX here, Seagate, this is one of the memory names that's been on...
02:44...huge runs.
02:45We've talked a lot about running into earnings, often spells for a...
02:49...down move post earnings.
02:51Well, when we got the print yesterday in the after hours, the stock...
02:54...did try to move down.
02:55In fact, it was down by about 2% before very quickly...
02:59...reversing and going green.
03:00Here we are 10% higher again here this morning.
03:04Last stock on our list is going to be Packaging Core.
03:06The ticker here is PKG.
03:09And it...
03:09...tumbled 2.07% after posting weaker than expected results for the fourth quarter.
03:14The company...
03:14...also said it sees first quarter gap EPS of 2.20% versus the...
03:19...market estimate of 2.26%.
03:24...ISTS OF 2.20%
03:27EPS OF 2.20%
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