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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