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U.S. stock futures moved higher early Friday, as investors built on recent optimism that tensions in the Middle East may be easing.

President Donald Trump said the Iran war "should be ending pretty soon," describing developments as "going along swimmingly" during remarks in Las Vegas on Thursday. The comments followed the announcement of a temporary ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon.

Recent optimism around a potential peace deal has lifted equities, putting all three major indexes on track for weekly gains. The Dow is up about 1.4%, while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq have advanced roughly 3.3% and 5.2%, respectively.

Investors will also watch earnings from financial firms on Friday, including State Street (NYSE:STT), Truist Financial Corp (NYSE:TFC) and Fifth Third Bancorp (NYSE:FITB).

Meanwhile, the 10-year Treasury bond yielded 4.305%, and the two-year bond was at 3.773%. The CME Group's FedWatch tool‘s projections show markets pricing a 99.5% likelihood of the Federal Reserve leaving the current interest rates unchanged in its April meeting.

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 higher in premarket trading on Thursday. The SPY was up 0.21% at $701.07, while the QQQ gained 0.16% to $641.40.

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00:08all right green arrows across the board ahead of friday's open here stop me if you've heard
00:12that before it looks we've been up 12 straight days here and so far in the pre-market looks like
00:18we're staring at a 13th but let's see how we close s&p futures up 0.39 percent dow futures
00:24up 0.53
00:24and the nasdaq futures up 0.38 percent all right let's take a look at some more news here let
00:34me
00:34cue this up real quick on thursday corporate earnings and outsized moves in select socks
00:41dominated trading gains in pepsi ticker pep contrasted with sharp declines in abbott laboratories
00:47ticker abt and charles schwab ticker s ch w while netflix slipped late in trading following its
00:55earnings results u.s stock futures moved higher early on friday as investors built on recent
01:01optimism that tensions in the middle east may be easing president trump said the iran war quote
01:06should be ending pretty soon end quote for that a whole bunch describing developments as quote
01:11going along swimmingly end quote by the way i love when people use the word swimmingly
01:15and those were came during remarks in las vegas on thursday the comments followed an announcement
01:21of a temporary ceasefire between israel and lebanon recent optimism around a potential peace deal has
01:27lifted equities putting all three major indexes on track for weekly gains the dow is up about 1.4
01:34while the s&p and nasdaq have advanced roughly 3.3 and 52 respectively investors will also watch
01:42earnings from financial firms on friday including state street ticker stt truest financial ticker tfc
01:48and fifth third bank core ticker fitb meanwhile the 10-year treasury bond yielded 4.305 percent and
01:56the two-year bond was at 3.773 percent the cme group's fed watch tool projections show that the markets
02:02are pricing at a 99.5 percent likelihood of the federal reserve leaving the current interest rates
02:08unchanged in its april meeting now we have several stocks in focus here for you today and the first
02:14one ought to be obvious it's netflix it's the big daddy from yesterday it fell 9.6 percent on thursday
02:19after the streaming giant issued a tepid forecast and said co-founder and chairman reed hastings would
02:25step down from the board in june the stock is extending the losses and was last down 9.84 percent
02:30at
02:3197.18 in the pre-market trading on friday the next stock on our list is truest financial uh this
02:38is
02:38ticker tfc they were down 0.38 percent in trading before the bell on friday as the lender gears up
02:44for his first quarterly print before the market opens analysts expect the charlotte north carolina
02:49based company to report quarterly earnings of a dollar per share that's up from 89 cents per share
02:54a year ago the next stock on our list is going to be state street ticker on this one is
03:00stt was down
03:010.87 percent in the pre-market trading on friday as the financial services firm is expected to report
03:07quarterly earnings of 263 per share and revenue of 3.66 billion before the opening bell and that's
03:12according to pro the last stock on our list is microsoft software giant microsoft ticker msft
03:20rose over three percent in pre-market trading on friday putting the stock on track for a full week
03:25of gains as momentum and mega cap tech and improved sentiment around azure and earnings continue to
03:31support the move
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