Stock futures climbed Monday as Wall Street sought to build on last week’s rally to record highs.
Market Snapshot
At 9:07 a.m. ET, Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average added 198 points, trading 0.4% higher. S&P 500 futures gained 0.4%, while Nasdaq-100 futures climbed 0.5%.
Pre-Market Movers
Tesla Motors jumped 7% in premarket trading after the electric-vehicle maker closed Friday with a market cap above $1 trillion for the first time since April 25, 2022, according to Dow Jones Market Data. The stock rose 29% last week for its best weekly performance since late January 2023. The stock rose 15% alone last Wednesday, the day after Donald Trump was elected U.S. president. Elon Musk, Tesla CEO, actively campaigned for Trump, spending millions of dollars to support Trump's bid.
Trump Media & Technology rose 9% after a topsy-turvy week for the company that operates the Truth Social social-media platform and which is roughly 57%-owned by President-elect Trump. The stock fell 23% on Thursday but closed with a gain of 15% on Friday after Trump said he has no intention of selling his shares in Trump Media.
Coinbase Global, Inc. surged 14%, Marathon Digital Holdings Inc was up 15%, MicroStrategy gained 9%, and Robinhood Markets rose 7% as the cryptocurrency-linked stocks gained momentum as Bitcoin traded above $82,000. The largest crypto passed $80,000 for the first time ever on Sunday. Digital assets have soared on expectations that a second Trump presidency would be crypto-friendly. The president-elect has said he'd make the U.S. "the crypto capital world."
Monday.com Ltd. declined 13% after the maker of project-management software swung to a loss in the third quarter and said Chief Revenue Officer Yoni Osherov would step down at the end of the year.
Earnings reports are expected later in the week from Home Depot, Shopify, Spotify Technology S.A., Occidental, Cisco, Walt Disney, Applied Materials, Alibaba, JD.com, and Talen Energy Corp.
Market News
Tesla Stock Extends Rally as Musk-Trump Alliance Fuels Gains
Tesla Motors shares jumped 7% premarket on Monday, extending a red-hot rally fueled by investor bets that the automaker would benefit from CEO Elon Musk's backing of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump.
Hedge funds that had short positions against Tesla between election day and Friday’s close took an on-paper hit of at least $5.2 billion, according to Bloomberg calculations based on data compiled by S3 Partners.
Amazon Developing Driver Eyeglasses to Shave Seconds off Deliveries, Sources Say
Amazon.com is developing smart eyeglasses for its delivery drivers to guide them to, around and within buildings, as it tries to smooth the final stretch of an order's journey to a customer's home, five people familiar with the matter said.
If successful, the glasses would provide drivers with turn-by-turn navigation on a small embedded screen, along their routes and at each stop, according to the people, who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity because the project is not public.
China’s Credit Growth Disappoints as Lending Lags Bond Sales
China’s credit expansion slowed more than expected in October, as a surge in government bond sales far exceeded growth in lending during a traditionally slow month for financing activity.
Aggregate financing, a broad measure of credit, increased 1.4 trillion yuan ($195 billion), according to Bloomberg calculations based on data released by the People’s Bank of China on Monday. That compares with a median forecast of 1.5 trillion yuan by economists in a Bloomberg survey, and an increase of 1.8 trillion yuan in the same month a year ago.
