00:08All right. Futures in the green ahead of Tuesday's open here after another fairly decent day
00:15yesterday. It looks like we're going to try and push higher here in the morning. S&P futures up
00:19by 0.42 percent. The Dow futures up by 0.61 percent, likely on the back of those UNH earnings.
00:25The Nasdaq up 0.48 percent. Now, let's take a look at some cues from last session here, shall we?
00:35Materials, financials, and real estate stocks recorded the biggest gains on Monday.
00:40However, communication services, health care, and utilities recorded the biggest decline.
00:46U.S. stock futures rose on Tuesday following Monday's decline, although it wasn't a big
00:51back. Futures of major benchmark indices edged up with negotiating teams from the United States and
00:56Iran slated to arrive in Islamabad for further talks. It's going to be J.D. Vance and Whitcoff.
01:01On Monday, the Dow Jones index closed about five points lower, even as tensions between the U.S.
01:07and Iran intensified as the ceasefire drew closer to expiry. Meanwhile, the 10-year Treasury bond
01:14yielded 4.252 percent, and the two-year bond was at 3.73 percent at the time of this writing.
01:21The CME Group's Fed watch tool projections show that the markets are pricing at a 99.5 percent
01:27likelihood of the Federal Reserve, leaving the current interest rates unchanged in April.
01:33Now, we have several stocks in focus here for you today, and you easily could have guessed...
01:39Oh, I'm not even sharing the story. My apologies. You easily could have guessed what the first one
01:43was. First one is going to be Apple. Ticker on this one is AAPL, and the news here is that
01:48Tim Cook
01:49will step down as the CEO of Apple in September, and John Turnus will succeed him. This brings Cook's
01:5715-year tenure as Apple's chief to an end. Apple shares declined 0.6 percent in the pre-market.
02:04The interesting thing about this, though, is that initially this actually sold off about a percent,
02:10and then it bounced. Now, the interesting note about this that I just want everyone to think
02:15about, we had actually polled folks probably a few times, I think, saying, what is Apple's price going
02:21to do if and when Tim Cook steps down? There was a contingent of folks that think Apple stock is
02:27going
02:27to trade up. Now, bringing in John Turnus is important because he's a hardware guy, and perhaps we'll get
02:34more innovation out of the hardware side of Apple. That's really the only thing that it's lacked.
02:39Also, this might make some of the product calls or the events a little bit more punchy, as John
02:47Turnus, being a hardware guy, might make it a little bit more exciting. All things to find out here,
02:52but that's what's going on with Apple. Biggest corporate news story of the day yesterday,
02:57without a doubt, and it's going to carry into today. The next stock we have on our list is going
03:01to be
03:01UNH, and this is UnitedHealth Group. Wall Street expects UnitedHealth Group to report quarterly
03:06earnings of $658 per share on revenue of $109.58 billion before the opening bell. Now, UNH shares
03:13were up 0.037% in the pre-market trading. Now that we've actually had the earnings print, it's up
03:21nearly 7%. That earnings print is as follows. UnitedHealth Q1 adjusted EPS of $723, beat the
03:28$658 estimate. Nice beat there. Sales of $111.72 billion beat the estimate of $109.579 billion.
03:36UnitedHealth Group full year 26 gap EPS expected to be more than $1735, and that was versus the $1684
03:44estimate. 3M is going to be the next stock on our list. Analysts expect 3M to post quarterly earnings
03:52at $199 per share on revenue of $6.01 billion before the opening bell. It was up three-tenths.
03:58Those earnings are in. Q1 adjusted EPS for 3M is $214. That did, in fact, beat the $199 estimate.
04:05Sales of $6 billion was about in line there. 3M affirms its fiscal year 26 adjusted EPS guidance of
04:12$850 to $870. That was versus the $863 estimate, so that is also in line there. Also affirms fiscal
04:20year 2026 sales guidance of $25.25 billion. That was versus the $25.14 billion estimate.
04:27UNH is actually trading down 2% ahead of today's Open. The next stock on our list is going to
04:33be
04:33Amazon, ticker AMZN, and it rose nearly 3% in Tuesday's pre-market session after the company
04:40announced an expanded partnership with AI startup Anthropic. More on that coming here shortly.
04:45The last stock on our list is going to be Spruce Biosciences, and the ticker on this one is
04:51SPRB. It fell more than 11% in Tuesday's pre-market session after the company proposed a public
04:58offering of common stock and warrants.
05:01Serious Pavement?
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