US stock futures pointed mostly lower Tuesday, a day after the Dow Jones Industrial Average kicked off the first full trading week of 2026 by surging to a record high.
These stocks were poised to make moves Tuesday:
Vistra rose 4.1% after the electricity and power-generation company said it planned to buy Cogentrix Energy from Quantum Capital Group in a deal valued at about $4 billion, including cash, equity and debt. Vistra is adding to its energy portfolio in a bid to meet growing demand in key markets, said President and CEO Jim Burke.
Valero Energy climbed 1.2% in premarket trading after the oil refiner closed Monday up 9.2%, finishing the session as the top-performing stock in the S&P 500. Valero is seen as a beneficiary of any production increases from Venezuela following the U.S. capture and ouster of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
Oilfield-services stock Halliburton, which jumped 7.8% on Monday, climbed another 1.5% in the premarket session. SLB added 1.6% ahead of the opening bell, following a jump of 9% on Monday.
JPMorgan Chase slid 0.5% in the premarket session after the bank r ose 2.6% on Monday to close at a record high of $334.04. The largest U.S. lender by assets closed Monday with a market capitalization of $909.34 billion, the first time ever it has eclipsed $900 billion. The move made JPMorgan the 13th U.S. company to achieve the milestone, according to Dow Jones Market Data.
Advanced Micro Devices ticked up 0.3% as investors reacted to CEO Lisa Su's keynote speech at the CES tech trade show in Las Vegas. "We are just starting to realize the power of AI," Su said Monday as she unveiled new AI chips and processors. AMD has gained more than 3% so far in 2026 and 70% over the past year through Monday's close.
Nvidia climbed 0.5%. CEO Jensen Huang said on Monday at CES that the chip maker's next big AI graphics processing unit, Vera Rubin, was in "full production." Huang is scheduled to speak again at CES after the market closes on Tuesday.
Shares of Zeta Global, a provider of an AI-driven marketing platform, jumped 10% in premarket trading after announcing a collaboration with OpenAI that will support Zeta's conversational intelligence and agentic applications.
Microchip Technology boosted its fiscal third-quarter net sales outlook to about $1.19 billion, higher than previous guidance of $1.1 billion to $1.15 billion. Analysts had been expecting net sales in the period of $1.14 billion. "We continue to experience a fairly broad-based recovery in most of our end markets driven by progress we have made in inventory correction in distribution as well as direct customers, and with new customer designs turning to production," said CEO and President Steve Sanghi. Shares rose 4.2%.
Earnings reports are expected after the closing bell Tuesday from AAR Corp. and Penguin Solutions.
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