5 things to know before the stock market opens Tuesday, April 26

Here are the top news, trends and analysis that investors need to start their trading day:

US stock futures It fell on Tuesday as earnings reports from major US companies poured in ahead of the post-bell quarterly results Microsoft And the father of Google the alphabetThe first tech giants to launch this week.

• Wall Street saw a major shift Monday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 488 points to close 238 points, or 0.7% higher. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq erased losses, ending 0.6% and 1.3%, respectively.
• Bond yields fell On the back of Tuesday’s economic slowdown concerns there were a number of major reports released before the bell rang. Matching March durable goods orders with estimates. S&P/ Case-Shiller housing data for February is due at 9 a.m. ET, as well as new home sales for March and consumer confidence for April at 10 a.m. ET.

PepsiCoThe company’s better-than-expected revenue and revised earnings in the first quarter crushed the Standard & Poor’s 500 companies that reported earnings on Tuesday. One day after the competition coca cola Made solid profits and maintained its guidance, PepsiCo She raised her expectations for the whole year for organic revenue growth. In March, Pepsi joined a handful of other Western companies in suspending some of its business in Russia as a punitive measure for the attack on Ukraine, but it stopped short of halting sales there quite like rival Coca-Cola.

United State It expands access For oral antiviral therapies against Covid such as PfizerPaxlovid by doubling the number of sites it’s available at, the White House said Tuesday. Drug stores participating in the federal pharmacy program to distribute antiviral treatments will be able to order free pills directly from the US government starting this week.

Three-quarters of Beijing’s 22 million citizens lined up for coronavirus tests on Tuesday with authorities in the Chinese capital race to eliminate The recent outbreak of the pandemic under the country’s Covid-free policy. They want to avoid the debilitating citywide shutdown that has crippled Shanghai, China’s largest city, for a month.

Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal He told the staff Monday The future of the social media company is uncertain yet Elon MuskClose your takeover deal. Agrawal spoke during a company-wide city council meeting heard by Reuters. Musk, the world’s richest person and CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, is expected to address Twitter employees in a question-and-answer session at a later time.

Among those who interact took to Twitter on Monday to reach a buyout deal with Musk who is a fellow billionaire and co-founder of the social network Jack Dorsey. In a Monday night tweet, Dorsey wrote: “Elon is the only solution I trust. I trust his mission to expand the Light of Consciousness.”

Fidelity Investments will allow investors to add a profile Bitcoin Account to 401(k)s, According to the Wall Street Journal, Tuesday. The magazine report said that 23,000 companies using Fidelity to manage their retirement savings offerings will have the option to add bitcoin to their plans later this year. Fidelity’s Head of Workplace Retirement Offers and Platforms said the choice will initially be limited to Bitcoin But it expects to provide other digital assets in the future.

– CNBC channel Tanaya MachelAnd Hana MiuAnd Sarah Min And Ryan Brown As well as Reuters contributed to this report.

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