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U.S. stock futures pared gains to decline on Wednesday following Tuesday's positive close. Futures of the major benchmark indices were lower.

Wholesale inflation accelerated more than expected in February, with the Producer Price Index (PPI) for final demand jumping 0.7%. This marked a significant pickup from January’s 0.5% increase, driven by a broad-based 1.1% spike in goods prices—the largest rise since mid-2023.

On a year-over-year basis, the unadjusted index for final demand rose 3.4%. Meanwhile, Core PPI, which excludes volatile food, energy, and trade services, advanced 0.5% for the month and climbed 3.5% over the last 12 months, marking its tenth consecutive monthly increase.

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 Wednesday. The SPY was down 0.058% at $670.40, while the QQQ declined 0.008% to $603.36.

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00:08all right we've got green arrows across the board here today but we'll see if that holds
00:14into the open as the green arrows are diminishing and we are moving down from our pre-market highs
00:20s&p futures up 0.14 percent dow futures up 0.16 percent and the nasdaq futures up 0.2
00:26percent
00:27we are 21 minutes ahead of the ppi print that's due today so we'll see what kind of movement that
00:34gives for the market but nice to wake up here with some green arrows across the board let's take a
00:41look at some ins or excuse me let's take a look first at some cues from last session energy consumer
00:46discretionary and communication services led the s&p 500's gains on tuesday though consumer staples
00:53and health care stocks trended lower investors are eyeing the producer price index data which
01:01is scheduled to be released before the market opens today additionally the street is also awaiting
01:07federal open market committee's decision on interest rates later in the day which will be followed by
01:12fed chairs jerome powell's press conference and the publication of the summary of economic projections
01:18otherwise known as the dot plot the cme group's fed watch tool projections show markets pricing in
01:24a 98.9 percent likelihood of the federal reserve leaving the current interest rates unchanged as we've
01:29been saying here this looks baked in we're not really expecting any surprises here today
01:35with the u.s iran war entering its third week president trump said that the u.s is not prepared
01:40to
01:40bring the military conflict to a close but would still exit soon quote we're not ready to leave yet
01:46but we're leaving in the near future we'll be leaving in pretty much the very near future end quote
01:5310-year treasury bond yielded 4.17 percent and the two-year bond was at 3.66 percent now let's
02:01take a
02:02look at uh some stocks in focus for you here today the first one the big earnings report of yesterday
02:09and this is important because we've watched some of these other retail stocks like gap and kohl's trade up
02:15on their print and then fade the gains away we'll see if we get the opposite here for lululemon which
02:21is our first stock the ticker is lulu it fell 2.04 percent in the pre-market on wednesday after
02:28it
02:28issued fiscal guidance below estimates for completeness lululemon reported q4 eps of 501 which
02:35beat the 479 estimate sales were 3.641 billion that beat the 3.587 billion estimate so top and
02:45bottom line beat on last quarter they see q1 gap eps of 163 to 168 that was versus the 209
02:52estimate so
02:53that coming in a little bit lighter and they see sales of 2.4 to 2.43 billion the estimate
02:59was for
02:592.474 billion so that coming in a little lighter as well lululemon sees fiscal year 26 gap eps of
03:0612 10 to 12 30 that was versus the 12 67 estimate and they see full year sales of 11
03:12.35 billion to
03:1411.5 billion that was versus the estimate of 11.53 billion so despite putting up a good number for
03:20the
03:20previous quarter the guide was a little soft here and lululemon has come in a little bit it is worth
03:25noting that lululemon is up off of its lows and only down a couple of percent here in the pre
03:30-market
03:30so we'll see if we get the inverse reaction that we've seen in some of the other uh retail names
03:37that we've looked at recently the next stock on our list is going to be cf industries the ticker is
03:43cf
03:43and it fell 2.72 as crude oil futures declined and mizuho downgraded cf industries to underperform
03:52warning that the stock's 60 year-to-date rally is quote overdone end quote and that geopolitical
03:58spike in nitrogen prices are likely temporary that was according to an investing.com report
04:04as a uh side note here big time shout out to one of our chat members jay rice who right
04:11in the moment
04:11of this came in and said hey those things are probably overdone don't chase them since he said
04:17that they've done nothing but pull back an excellent call by one of our community members here
04:23the next stock on our list is going to be micron and i think this is probably the biggest stock
04:28that
04:28folks are going to be looking at or planning for here today micron gained 2.99 as analysts expected
04:35to report earnings of 877 per share on revenue of 19.26 billion that's going to come after the
04:42closing bell today so kind of an important day uh for micron to be reporting earnings we'll see what
04:47kind of number they put up and where the stock goes i believe they also got an upgrade from bernstein
04:52this morning so they're trading higher here in the pre-market ahead of those earnings the next stock on
04:57our list is going to be kkr and co the ticker is kkr and it rose 0.71 as it
05:03announced an investment of
05:04up to 310 million in pmi electro and its ebus unit all fleet the last stock on our list is
05:12going to be
05:13new fortress energy and the ticker on this one is nfe it jumped 6.96 after it signed a debt
05:21restructuring
05:22agreement with creditors
05:24agreement with creditors
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