By Joe Woelfel
Stock futures traded higher Monday Stocks amid signs of easing trade tensions between the U.S. and China.
These stocks were poised to make moves Monday:
Nvidia rose 0.3% in premarket trading after the leading maker of artificial-intelligence chips on Friday unveiled the first Blackwell wafer produced in the U.S., made at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing's facility in Phoenix. U.S.-listed shares of TSM gained 2.4%.
Boeing rose 1.4% in the premarket session. The aerospace giant will be allowed to increase production of its 737 MAX to 42 planes a month from 38, a cap that was put in place after an emergency door plug blew out of a 737 MAX 9 jet operated by Alaska Air in January 2024. Boeing delivered 387 MAX jets in 2023, before the door plug incident. It delivered 260 MAX jets in 2024 and is expected to deliver about 450 MAX jets this year.
Cooper Cos. jumped 4.9% in premarket trading following a report from The Wall Street Journal that said activist investor Jana Partners has built a stake in the company and plans to push for strategic alternatives, including a potential deal to combine Cooper's contact-lens unit with rival Bausch + Lomb. The Journal report cited people familiar with the matter. Bausch + Lomb CEO Brent Saunders told the Journal he would be interested in such a combination.
Amazon.com dipped 0.2%. A major Amazon Web Services outage disrupted much of the internet early Monday, including apps such as Snap, Coinbase, Roblox, and McDonald's. The world's largest cloud provider first reported increased error rates for multiple AWS services in its "US-East-1 region" shortly after 3 a.m. Eastern time Monday. Global services that rely on the region's infrastructure also may face issues, AWS said. The cloud provider reported "significant signs of recovery" at 5.30 a.m ET.
Earnings reports are expected Monday from Cleveland-Cliffs, Steel Dynamics, Zions Bancorp, and Summit Therapeutics.
Reports are expected later in the week from Netflix, Tesla, GE Aerospace, Intel, Coca-Cola, Philip Morris, RTX, Texas Instruments, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Capital One Financial, 3M, General Motors, Ford Motor, International Business Machines, SAP, AT&T, T-Mobile, Lam Research, GE Vernova, Amphenol, Vertiv Holdings, Union Pacific, Honeywell International, Freeport-McMoran, Newmont, Procter & Gamble, HCA Healthcare, and General Dynamics.
Netflix is scheduled to report third-quarter earnings after the closing bell Tuesday. Shares of the streaming company rose 1.3% on Friday and snapped a five-session losing streak. Coming into Monday, Netflix has risen nearly 35% this year, according to Dow Jones Market Data. The stock gained 0.3% in premarket trading.
Tesla rose 1.1% to $444.33 in premarket trading. The electric-vehicle maker is scheduled to report third-quarter earnings after the markets close on Wednesday. Tesla gained 2.5% on Friday, shaking off a Sell rating from BNP Paribas Exane analyst James Picariello. The finished the past week up 6.2%. On Sunday, Wedbush analyst Dan Ives said "we are finally starting to see stable demand trends for Tesla" after what he called a "brutal few quarters." Ives rates Tesla shares a Buy with a $600 price target, the highest on Wall Street.
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