Wall Street wandered towards gains before the market open on Tuesday as more business incomes come in, offering financiers a break from stressing about if and when the Federal Reserve may cut interest rates.
Futures for the Dow Jones industrials increased 0.6% before the bell, while futures for the S&P 500 inched up 0.2%.
Shares of UnitedHealth Group leapt 7.6% in off-hours trading after the health care giant beat Wall Street’s first-quarter sales and earnings targets.
Concert promoter Live Nation toppled more than 8% after The Wall Street Journal reported that the U.S. Department of Justice was preparation to file an antitrust match next month versus the momsanddad business of Ticketmaster.
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Tesla was on track for a 3rd straight day of decreases, falling another 2.6% before the bell. The Elon Musk-run electrical vehicle maker published falling sales in its most current quarter and revealed it was laying off 10% of its laborforce Monday. Its shares are down about 35% so far this year.
Dr. Martens shares skidded more than 30% before trading was stopped on the London Stock Exchange. The fashionable shoemaker on Tuesday projection that its U.S. profits would decrease by double-digits from a year earlier.
Strong business profits have assisted balancedout some of the stressandanxiety hanging over markets about interest rates. Several financial signs in current weeks expose a still-strong U.S. economy, which might keep inflation from falling to a level where the Federal Reserve feels comfy cutting interest rates. High interest rates and bond yields hurt rates for a broad swath of financialinvestments.
The economy and monetary markets are in an uncomfortable stage wh