00:07all right futures under pressure today ahead of friday's open although they have already started
00:13to bounce up off the lows s&p futures down 0.32 percent dow futures down 0.25 percent and
00:21the
00:21nasdaq futures leading the way lower at 0.47 percent to the downside let's go ahead and take
00:28a look at some cues from last session here materials consumer discretionary and staple
00:33shares led the s&p 500 lower on thursday while energy and financials managed to close higher
00:39despite the downturn iran warned of zero restraint following strikes on its energy infrastructure
00:48amid the ongoing war well the first u.s f-35 jet was reportedly hit by iranian fire during a
00:54combat
00:54mission additionally iranian attacks have knocked out 17 percent of qatar's lng export capacity which
01:02threatens about 20 billion in annual losses and long-term disruptions to global energy supplies
01:06also market volatility is expected to surge today as the s&p 500 enters its triple witching season i
01:14know several of you are waiting for that a quarterly event where the simultaneous expiration of stock
01:21options index options and index futures has resulted in a positive session only 20 percent of the time
01:27over the last five years so it looks like that witching the odds are that we see a down day
01:34here
01:34today we'll see how it shakes out meanwhile the 10-year treasury bond yielded 4.28 percent and the
01:39two-year bond was at 3.5 uh excuse me 3.83 percent um the cme group's fed watch tool
01:48projections show
01:48the market are pricing in a 93.8 percent likelihood that the federal reserve leaves the interest rates
01:53unchanged in its upcoming april meeting very similar to what we saw for march now we have several stocks
02:02in focus here for you today fedex is going to be the first one ticker fdx it jumped 10.43
02:09percent in
02:10the pre-market on friday after reporting better than expected third quarter financial results and raising
02:14its fiscal year 26 adjusted eps guidance above estimates really quickly just to clean up the
02:19entire print here q3 adjusted eps of 525 beat the 413 estimate sales of 24 billion beat the estimate
02:27of 23.4 to 1 billion fedex raises its fiscal year 2026 adjusted eps guidance from 1780 to 19 to
02:361930 to
02:372010 that was versus an 1870 estimate so pretty good uh raise there excuse me and they widened the
02:45fiscal year 2026 sales guidance from 93.5 billion to 93.2 to 93.64 billion that was versus the
02:5492.7
02:55billion estimate so fedex good all around on its earnings report the next stock on our list is going
03:02to be super micro computer and the ticker on this one is smci and it plunged 23.61 percent after
03:10its
03:11co-founder including two other individuals were charged in an alleged scheme to unlawfully export
03:17artificial intelligence technology to china we're gonna have more on this story coming up here in a
03:23little bit planet labs is the next stock on our list and the ticker on this one is pl and
03:30it soared
03:3117.25 percent after reporting better than expected fourth quarter sales results and issuing fiscal
03:36year 27 guidance above estimates planet labs so the q4 sales of 86.82 million that beat the 78.52
03:45million estimate planet lab sees q1 sales of 87 and 91 million that was first an estimate of 84.5
03:53million
03:53so a raise there planet labs sees fiscal year 2027 sales of 415 to 440 million that was versus the
04:01estimate of 379 million so another good report there for planet labs higher we go on that stock
04:08the next stock on our list is scholastic corporation that's a name i haven't heard in a long time
04:15a very long time ticker on this one is schhl and it gained 10.54 percent after reporting better than
04:23expected earnings for the third quarter and announcing a 200 million dollar buyback that print for q3 had an
04:30adjusted eps of 15 cent loss that beat the estimate of a 36 cent loss and they saw sales of
04:36329.1 million
04:38versus the estimate of 331 million the last stock on our list is going to be serena therapeutics and
04:47this should be familiar because this was on our movers list yesterday the ticker is ser and it dropped
04:547.87 percent as a private placement totaling 15 million is scheduled to finalize today with an
04:59additional 15 million tranche possible by april 30th
05:03year
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