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U.S. stock futures ticked higher on Wednesday after a volatile session for equities on Tuesday.

Oil prices were up 3% as the U.S.-Israeli war ​on Iran disrupted Middle East supplies. However, the pace of gains slowed from past sessions after ‌President Donald Trump announced the U.S. Navy would escort tankers through the Strait of Hormuz and pledged political risk insurance for maritime trade transiting the waterway.

Higher oil prices have stoked fears of stickier inflation, which could keep the Fed on hold longer and remove the rate-cut cushion markets have been leaning on all year. Wall Street’s fear gauge, the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX), jumped to 23.96 on Wednesday, its highest level since November.

Investors on Wednesday will also be watching the ADP private payrolls report for February, along with quarterly results from Broadcom, Abercrombie & Fitch and Okta.

The 10-year Treasury bond yielded 4.08%, and the two-year bond was at 3.53%. The CME Group's FedWatch tool‘s projections show markets pricing a 97.3% likelihood of the Federal Reserve leaving the current interest rates unchanged in March.

The SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE:SPY) and Invesco QQQ Trust ETF (NASDAQ:QQQ), which track the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100, respectively, were slightly up in premarket trading on Wednesday. The SPY was up 0.23% at $681.90, while the QQQ rose 0.29% to $603.25.

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00:07all right futures in the green here ahead of wednesday's open near unchanged and actually
00:13down from the pre-market highs we had some green arrows uh earlier this morning s&p futures up by
00:190.17 the dow futures up by 0.06 and the nasdaq futures up by 0.33 percent let's take
00:29a look at
00:29some cues from last session we almost almost closed green again down by just about a percent but we had
00:36a nice little bounce again on tuesday materials and industrials led market losses amid concerns
00:42that rising oil prices and borrowing costs could slow the u.s economy major tech names like nvidia
00:48and u.s memory stocks fell uh tracking declines in south korean chip makers
00:55oil prices were up three percent as the u.s israeli war on iran disrupted middle east supplies
01:02however the pace of gains slowed from past sessions after president trump announced the u.s navy would
01:07escort tankers through the strait of hormuz and pledged political risk insurance for maritime trade
01:13transiting the waterway higher oil prices have stoked fears of stickier inflation which could keep the fed
01:21on hold for longer and remove the rate cut cushion markets have been leaning on all year wall street's
01:28fear gauge the cbo volatility index jumped to 23.96 on wednesday that is its highest level since november
01:35investors on wednesday will also be watching the adp private payrolls report for february along with the
01:41quarterly results from broadcom abercrombie and fitch which were out this morning and okta
01:46the 10-year treasury bond yielded 4.08 percent and the two-year bond was at 3.53 percent the
01:53cme group's
01:54fed watch tool projections are still pricing in a 97.3 percent chance that we hold interest rates
02:00steady at the next meeting in march now we've got several uh stocks in focus for you here today
02:08uh broadcom is going to be first ticker avgo uh broadcom shares were up four tenths before the bell
02:14on wednesday the chip maker is due to report fiscal first quarter results after the market closes
02:20analysts expect earnings per share of 188 on revenues of 19.18 billion as is according to data
02:27from benzinga pro okta is going to be the next stock on our list that's ticker okta and it will
02:34report
02:34fourth quarter earnings per share um estimated 62 on revenues of 749.58 million after the market closes
02:43on wednesday we'll see if it's able to meet those abercrombie and fitch shares they were up two percent
02:48in pre-market trading wall street expected the company to report quarterly earnings of 357 per
02:53share on revenue of 1.6 billion before the market opens now we have that print here abercrombie and
03:00fitch q4 adjusted eps of 368 beats the 357 estimate and sales were in line at 1.669 billion
03:08abercrombie sees q1 gap eps of 120 to 130 that's versus the 139 estimate so a little light there
03:15sales of 1.108 billion to 1.30 billion that's versus the 1.47 billion estimate so a little bit
03:24light on the q1 guide as well full year 26 gap eps of 1020 to 11 that's versus the 1022
03:30estimate
03:31and they see sales of 5.424 billion to 5.529 billion that was versus the estimate of 5.478
03:40billion so pretty much right in line with the full year guide there on abercrombie
03:46the next stock on our list is going to be box that's ticker b-o-x it posted upbeat earnings
03:51for
03:51the fourth quarter after the closing bell on tuesday box sees fiscal 2027 adjusted eps of 155 that's versus
03:58the 153 estimate and revenue of 1.28 billion versus the 1.27 billion estimate shares were up more than
04:05six percent uh before the opening bell on wednesday raw stores is the last stock on our list the ticker
04:12on this one is rost and it jumped over six percent before the bell on wednesday after the company
04:18reported better than expected financial results for the fourth quarter on tuesday company posted revenue
04:25of 6.64 billion versus the estimate of 6.41 billion and earnings per share of two dollars versus the
04:32estimate of 189 that is per benzinga pro
04:34you
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