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U.S. stock futures pared earlier gains to decline on Tuesday following Monday's positive close. Futures of the major benchmark indices were lower amid the ongoing Iran-U.S. conflict.

Small business sentiment softened in February, with the NFIB Small Business Optimism Index slipping 0.5 points to 98.8. While the index remains slightly above its 52-year historical average, it marked the second consecutive monthly decline.

Despite this dip in overall optimism, the Uncertainty Index fell to 88, driven largely by a decrease in owners' hesitation regarding future capital expenditures.

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 lower in premarket on Tuesday. The SPY was down 0.37% at $675.78, while the QQQ declined 0.29% to $606.01.

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00:07all right futures under slight pressure here today they were around unchanged and when the
00:13morning started here they were actually up s p futures down 0.32 percent dow futures down 0.3
00:19and the nasdaq futures down 0.28 ahead of tuesday's open all right let's go ahead and take a look
00:27at
00:27some cues from last session it was a wild one communication services health care and
00:33information technology stocks record biggest gains and led most s p sectors to a positive close on
00:42monday um oops sorry uh monday's rebound came as president trump said the u.s campaign against
00:49iran could be nearing its end point saying tehran's military capability has been heavily degraded
00:55uh the most dramatic action occurred in the options market by 210 p.m eastern time oil prices
01:02were near 120 dollars a barrel and the s p was down over two percent however by 3 30 p
01:09.m eastern time
01:10the 675 strike spy call option price jumped 24 650 from two cents per contract to 4.95 per contract
01:21in roughly 80 minutes spy zero dtes were popping yesterday meanwhile the 10-year treasury bond
01:28yielded 4.1 percent and the two-year bond was at 3.54 percent there is no change in the
01:34cme feds watch
01:35tool those rates are going to be held steady in march now we have several stocks in focus here for
01:41you today and the first one is a double up but it's thematic so it makes sense here this is
01:47going to be
01:47lumentum holdings and coherent corporation the tickers are l-i-t-e-n-c-o-h-r respectively they rose
01:564.47 and 4.03 percent respectively following an announcement on friday that the companies would be
02:02added to the s p 500 later this month this follows nvidia's two billion dollar investment in both
02:10companies the next stock on our list is going to be strategy this is a popular one ticker on this
02:16one is
02:16mstr and it jumped 3.06 percent after bitcoin treasury company after the bitcoin treasury
02:23company excuse me disclosed the purchase of 17 994 bitcoins between march 2nd and march 8th for
02:311.28 billion dollars or roughly 70 946 per coin casey's general stores is the next stock on our list
02:42the ticker on this one is casy and it dropped 2.1 percent after reporting mixed results for the
02:49second quarter after the closing bell last night casey's general stores q3 eps of 349 beat the 299
02:57estimate sales of 3.916 billion slightly missed the estimate of 4.03 billion the next stock on our list
03:07is going to be veil resorts and the ticker on this one is mtn it declined 1.28 percent after
03:14posting
03:15downbeat earnings for the second quarter and reducing its fiscal 2026 guide veil q2 eps of 587 missed the
03:24621 estimate and sales of 1.084 billion missed the estimate of 1.113 billion the last stock on our
03:34list
03:34is going to be oracle and this is ticker orcl that was up 2.4 percent as analysts expected to
03:41report
03:41earnings of 171 per share on revenue of 16.91 billion after the closing bell today
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