5 issues to know earlier than the inventory market opens February 16, 2021

Listed here are a very powerful information, tendencies and evaluation that buyers want to begin their buying and selling day:

U.S. stock futures rose Tuesday, including to Friday’s record closes for the Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500 and Nasdaq. The U.S. inventory market was closed Monday for Presidents Day. All three inventory benchmarks completed greater final week, in a continuation of February’s energy. For the yr, as of Friday’s shut, the Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq had been up almost 2.8%, 4.8% and 9.4%, respectively.

The 30-year Treasury yield held above 2% early Tuesday as buyers watched for progress on President Joe Biden‘s proposed $1.9 trillion Covid stimulus bundle on Capitol Hill and the push for wider distribution of coronavirus vaccines throughout the U.S. The 10-year Treasury yield rose to greater than 1.26%.

CVS Health (CVS) reported quarterly earnings of $1.30 per share, 6 cents above estimates. Income additionally topped Wall Road forecasts, helped partially by Covid-19 testing and vaccinations at its pharmacies.

Bitcoin reached a brand new file excessive Tuesday, going over $50,000 per unit for the primary time ever, earlier than paring a few of these beneficial properties. Main corporations introduced help for digital currencies final week, beginning with Tesla revealing it purchased $1.5 billion price of bitcoin. Mastercard mentioned Thursday it might help sure cryptocurrencies later this yr, whereas BNY Mellon introduced the next day it might open up its custody companies to digital belongings. Bitcoin greater than quadrupled in 2020 and it is up over 60% because the begin of this yr.

Greater than 3.8 million households in Texas are at nighttime Tuesday morning, as file low temperatures boosted demand for power for heat that pushed the state’s electrical grid to its limits. Rolling blackouts, usually seen on 100-degree summer season days, had been imposed in Texas. The shortage of energy was so nice that spot costs of wholesale electrical energy on the Texas energy grid spiked more than 10,000% on Monday. U.S. oil costs additionally climbed to a pandemic-high above $60 per barrel. The frigid climate was a part of a large winter blast that introduced snow, sleet and freezing rain to the southern Plains, throughout elements of the Ohio Valley and the Northeast.

Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi mentioned Monday that Congress will establish an unbiased, 9/11-style fee to look into final month’s lethal rebellion on the U.S. Capitol. Investigations into the riot had been already deliberate, with Senate hearings scheduled later this month within the Guidelines Committee.

Home impeachment prosecutors who argued for Donald Trump‘s conviction of inciting the assault mentioned Sunday that they proved their case. Democrats additionally railed in opposition to Senate GOP chief Mitch McConnell and different Republicans, saying they had been “making an attempt to have it each methods” find the previous president not responsible whereas criticizing him.

Attempting to maneuver past Trump’s acquittal in final week’s impeachment trial, Biden plans to maintain up a busy schedule centered on the coronavirus within the coming week. Biden is ready to make his first official home journeys of his presidency, beginning with a CNN city corridor in Wisconsin on Tuesday to speak to People impacted by the pandemic. Biden on Thursday then visits a Pfizer Covid vaccine facility in Michigan because the drugmaker’s two-shot regime and Moderna‘s begin making extra inroads into pharmacies across the nation.

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