Futures slip as traders parse U.S. big bank earnings
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[April 12, 2024] By
Shashwat Chauhan and Shristi Achar A
(Reuters) -U.S. stock index futures traded lower on Friday as investors
assessed earnings reports from big U.S. banks to gauge how corporate
America has been faring in the current high interest rate environment.
Big U.S. banks kicked off the first-quarter earnings season, with Wells
Fargo dropping 2.6% in premarket trading after its quarterly profit fell
on decreased earnings from customer interest payments.
JPMorgan Chase & Co fell 3.6%, even as the lender's first-quarter profit
rose on higher interest payments.
BlackRock rose 2% after the world's largest asset manager posted a rise
in first-quarter profit on higher fee income.
"With the market now expecting higher for longer from the Fed, net
interest income should continue to be a pillar of support for bank
earnings in the future," Kathleen Brooks, research director at XTB, said
in a note.
Custodian bank State Street and Citigroup are also slated to report
quarterly numbers later in the day.
For the upcoming quarterly results, earnings are expected to grow 5%
year-on-year, according to LSEG data.
The Dow and the S&P 500 eye weekly losses as sentiment was roiled this
week following a hotter-than-anticipated inflation reading. That pushed
traders to scale back their enthusiasm around the U.S. Federal Reserve
cutting interest rates, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq was on track for its
first weekly gain in three.
U.S. large-cap stocks suffered their largest weekly outflow since
December 2022 in the week to Wednesday, Bank of America said.
The Nasdaq and the S&P 500 closed higher in the previous session as
fresh economic data rekindled hopes that inflation remained in a cooling
trend.
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Traders work on the trading floor at the New York Stock Exchange
(NYSE) in New York City, U.S., April 4, 2024. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly
Money market participants see about a 50% chance of the Fed bringing
in the first interest-rate cut in July, according to the CME
FedWatch Tool.
Meanwhile, Boston Fed President Susan Collins is eyeing a couple of
interest-rate cuts this year, amid expectations that it could take
some time for inflation to return to its targeted level.
Focus now turns to comments from Kansas City Fed President Jeffrey
Schmid, Atlanta Fed President Raphael Bostic and their San Francisco
counterpart Mary Daly later in the day, for hints on the central
bank's rate outlook.
On the data front, a preliminary reading of the University of
Michigan's overall index of consumer sentiment for April is due at
10 a.m. ET.
At 6:55 a.m. ET, Dow e-minis were down 129 points, or 0.33%, S&P 500
e-minis were down 26.25 points, or 0.50%, and Nasdaq 100 e-minis
were down 116 points, or 0.63%.
Among other stocks, data-center operator Applied Digital slumped
11.7% in premarket trading after reporting a bigger-than-expected
quarterly loss.
Advanced Micro Devices and Intel dropped 2.1% each after a report
that Chinese officials had told the country's largest telecom
carriers to phase out foreign processors by 2027.
(Reporting by Shashwat Chauhan and Shristi Achar A in Bengaluru;
Editing by Shounak Dasgupta and Pooja Desai)
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