Today’s Stock Market: With Peace Negotiation Stocks Higher, Walmart Focus

U.S. stock futures boosted higher yields in trading earlier on Tuesday, amid European Treasury bond yields and trivial gains, with investors focusing on a shortened week of vacation, focusing on new tariff policies and the domestic economy Health effects.

Stocks ended lower last Friday, but still managed to book reliable weekly earnings for the S&P 500 as investors stormed the announcement of White House tariffs, government spending, technical ambitions and foreign policy directives.

However, with weaker readings from retail sales in January, coupled with reports faster than expected inflation, some investors fear the impact of the Trump administration’s new tariffs on domestic growth and eventually become companies Profits, as the new government enters its first month of office.

However, the company’s profits have remained good so far, with about 383 companies in the S&P 500 report so far in the December quarter’s S&P 500 report expected to rise by 15.3% from a year ago to $546.3 billion.

About 43 companies will update investors this week, and investors may focus on Walmart’s ((WMT) The fourth quarter update after Thursday’s deal ended.

The retail giant is the leader in consumer spending health and the forefront of tariff discussions as it relies on imported goods from many U.S. trading partners.

However, Wall Street’s early focus on Tuesday may be on talks between the U.S. and Russia’s Russian envoys in Saudi Arabia, and targeted and developed a plan to end the three-year war in Moscow against Ukraine.

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However, the negotiations did not include representatives of President Kiev and President Vodimir Zelensky, saying he would not agree to any terms of negotiations in his absence.

At the beginning of the Wall Street trading day, stocks were set to be more stable open, with futures contracts related to the S&P 500, which rose 1.23%, priced at 19-point opening gains.

Meanwhile, futures related to the Dow Jones industrial average are called 39 points, and the technology-focused Nasdaq is named 92 points.

In the bond market, the increase in European government bond yields is related to comments from European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen that defense spending can be exempt from EU budget rules, which triggered the United States Overnight in the treasury.

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The benchmark 10-year note yield ended up being significantly lower than Friday’s level by about 4.505%, while the fixed 2-year note was 4.274%.

In overseas markets, Europe’s Stoxx 600 hit a fresh all-time high in early Frankfurt trading, last marked as green 0.08% as technology and defense stocks powered regional benchmarks.

Meanwhile, the UK’s FTSE 100 was 0.16% higher in London midday trading.

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Overnight in Asia, Japan’s Nikkei 225 rose 0.03% in Tokyo, while reliable earnings from Chinese tech stocks were linked to Monday’s meeting with President XI Jinping and many large tech bosses, helping the region’s MSCI EX-JAPAN INDEX reach 0.47% .

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