00:08all right futures in the green here ahead of yesterday's lower close we sold off pretty
00:14mightily in the afternoon here S&P futures higher by 0.7 percent at the moment Dow futures up by
00:200.48 percent and the Nasdaq leading the way higher 1.48 percent now let's take a look at
00:27some cues from last session as well as what we have going on here today industrials information
00:34technology and financial stocks recorded the biggest losses on Wednesday while energy and
00:39consumer staples bucked the overall market trend to close higher even as most sectors ended up
00:45closing lower U.S. stock futures were higher on Thursday as the Dow S&P and Nasdaq indices rose
00:51following Wednesday's lower close U.S. Central Command or CENTCOM initiated airstrikes against
00:57targets in Iran on Wednesday evening following an attempted Iranian attacks on U.S. personnel in
01:03the Middle East U.S. Central Command described the action on X stating quote the strikes are a powerful
01:09response to yesterday's attempted Iranian attacks on U.S. forces based in the Middle East end quote
01:17investors digested the Federal Reserve's decision to leave interest rates unchanged which came
01:22alongside a rare descent from three FOMC members who voted in favor of a rate hike as inflation persists
01:29above the Fed's two percent target. Meanwhile the 10-year Treasury bond yielded 4.69 percent and the
01:36two-year bond was at 4.27 percent. CME Group's Fed watch tool projections show the markets are pricing
01:42a 65.2 percent likelihood that the Federal Reserve hikes the current interest rates during its September
01:48meeting. Now we've got several stocks in focus here for you today and the first one is going to be
01:54Meta that's ticker M-E-T-A one of the big earnings reports from yesterday. It dropped 8.51 percent
02:00in
02:01the pre-market on Thursday after it posted mixed financial results for the second quarter. It
02:05anticipates full-year capital expenditures of 130 to 145 billion. This was versus the prior guide of 125 to
02:14145 billion so they basically just raised the lower end of that. The next stock on our list is going
02:19to
02:19be Microsoft and their software darling. The ticker is MSFT and it jumped 8.09 percent after reporting
02:26better than expected fourth quarter financial results on Wednesday after the market closed. Pretty
02:30good report there from Microsoft. The next stock on our list is going to be Qualcomm. The ticker is QCOM
02:37and
02:37it was 4.8 percent lower as it reported third quarter revenue of 9.9 billion, beating a street
02:42consensus estimate of 9.67 billion. But adjusted earnings per share were 221 in the quarter and
02:48that missed the estimate of 223. Apple is on our list next. Ticker AAPL, it was down six-tenths as
02:57analysts expected to post quarterly earnings of 189 per share on revenue of 108.65 billion after the
03:04closing bell today. The last stock on our list is our other big report today. It's Amazon,
03:10ticker AMZN, and it was 2.47 percent higher as analysts expect it to post quarterly earnings of
03:16182 per share on revenue of 196.25 billion after the closing bell today.
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