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Market Primer: Futures Flat After GDP

ByBenzinga
AuthorBenzinga
Published 01/31/2013, 07:05 AM
Updated 05/14/2017, 06:45 AM
Futures Flat After GDP


Top News

  • Banco Santander (SAN) reported a large loss overnight and wrote off a further $25.5 billion worth of assets tied to real estate, showing that the Spanish financial crisis is nowhere near over.
  • Germany's unemployment rate unexpectedly fell in January to 6.8 percent from 6.9 percent.
  • Research in Motion (RIMM) unveiled its latest operating system, Blackberry 10, Wednesday and announced that it is officially changing its name from Research in Motion to Blackberry.
  • S&P 500 futures were flat at 1,495.30.
  • The EUR/USD was lower at 1.3562.
  • Spanish 10-year government bond yields rose to 5.25 percent.
  • Italian 10-year government bond yields rose to 4.32 percent.
  • Gold fell 0.38 percent to $1,675.20 per ounce.
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Pre-Market Movers

  • Facebook (FB) shares declined 4.71 percent pre-market after the company reported weaker than expected earnings.
  • Hess (HES) shares declined 1.06 percent to $67.16 per share after rallying earlier this week on both stronger than expected earnings and an activist investor stake.
  • Research in Motion continued its post-Blackberry 10 decline, falling 4.43 percent pre-market after declining 12 percent Wednesday.
  • Phillips 66 (PSX), the refiner recently spun out of ConocoPhillips (COP), share rose 0.07 percent pre-market after the company reported strong earnings and announced its intention to convert to an MLP.
Earnings

  • Colgate Palmolive (CL) is expected to report fourth quarter EPS of $1.40 vs. $1.30 a year ago.
  • Dow Chemical (DOW) is expected to report fourth quarter EPS of $0.34 vs. $0.25 a year ago.
  • Mastercard (MA) is expected to report fourth quarter EPS of $4.82 vs. $4.03 a year ago.
  • NASDAQ OMX Group (NDAQ) is expected to report fourth quarter EPS of $0.61 vs. $0.63 a year ago.
  • Occidental Petroleum (OXY) is expected to report fourth quarter EPS of $1.67 vs. $2.02 a year ago.
  • Under Armor (UA) is expected to report fourth quarter EPS of $0.46 vs. $0.31 a year ago.
  • Viacom (VIAB) is expected to report fiscal first quarter EPS of $0.91 vs. $1.06 a year ago.
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