News Bulletin
Tuesday, April 21^st 2026
Evening Edition

Economic Numbers:

Time	Event	Actual	Forecast	Previous
Tuesday, April 21, 2026
8:30	ADP Employment Change Weekly			39.30K
8:30	Retail Sales (MoM) (Mar)	1.7%	0.014	0.006
8:30	Core Retail Sales (MoM) (Mar)	1.9%	0.014	0.50%
8:30	U.S. President Trump Speaks
8:30	Retail Control (MoM) (Mar)	0.7%	0.002	0.005
8:30	Retail Sales Ex Gas/Autos (MoM) (Mar)	0.6%		0.004
8:30	Retail Sales (YoY) (Mar)	3.97%		0.0371
9:00	Redbook (YoY)	6.7%		7.00%
10:00	Pending Home Sales (MoM) (Mar)	1.5%	0	1.80%
10:00	Retail Inventories Ex Auto (Feb)	0.3%	0.003	0.004
10:00	Business Inventories (MoM) (Feb)	0.4%	0.003	-0.001
10:00	Pending Home Sales Index (Mar)	73.7		72.1
11:30	Atlanta Fed GDPNow (Q1)	1.2%	0.013	1.30%
14:30	Fed Waller Speaks
16:30	API Weekly Crude Oil Stock		-1.000M	6.100M

Indices

	CLOSE	50 DMA	200 DMA
DJIA	49149.8	47937.31	47011.86
NASDAQ	24259.96	22612.44	22541.34
S&P 500	7064.01	6770.13	6693.83

Earnings Calendar:

(EPS: Earning Per Share / Rev: Revenue / Mkt Cap : market Capital/ BMO : Before Market Opening /AMC : After Market Close)

Company	Consensus	Previous	Revenue	Consensus	Previous	MarketCap	Fiscal	Time
Steel Dynamics STLD:US	324.00%	10:33		5.11B	4.37B	$29.19B	Q1	PM
American Capital Agency AGNC:US	0.37	10:33		941.96M	846M	$10.1B	Q1	PM
Wintrust Financial WTFC:US	295.00%	16:33		706.08M	643.11M	$8.9B	Q1	PM
Zions Bancorporation ZION:US	141.00%	3:07		853.5M	795M	$8.72B	Q1	PM
BOK Financial BOKF:US	2.27	20:38		550.44M	500.37M	$7.97B	Q1	PM
Alaska Air ALK:US	-0.89			3.3B	3.14B	$6.2B	Q1	PM
Cleveland-Cliffs CLF:US	-31.00%			4.84B	4.63B	$5.13B	Q1	AM
ServisFirst Bancshares SFBS:US	1.51	3:50		154.72M	125.2M	$4.16B	Q1	PM
Bank of Hawaii BOH:US	133.00%	23:16		192.25M	169.87M	$2.97B	Q1	AM
1st Source SRCE:US	163.00%	12:28		111.88M	104M	$1.77B	Q1	PM
XPLR Infrastructure NEP:US	0.03			310.79M	282M	$947.4M	Q1	AM

Market News:

U.S. stock futures are trading modestly higher this morning, as investors monitor developments around U.S.–Iran peace talks and assess ongoing earnings releases.

Here are some of the key premarket movers:

Oil prices fell on Tuesday as markets parsed mixed signals on fresh U.S.-Iran talks before the expiry of a temporary ceasefire later this week.

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) traded higher after announcing a major $5 billion AI investment, boosting sentiment.

Brookfield Wealth Solutions (NYSE: BNT) surged ~9% in premarket trading, emerging as one of the top early gainers.

Astera Labs (NASDAQ: ALAB) jumped ~7–8%, supported by continued strength in AI-related semiconductor demand.

Avis Budget Group (NASDAQ: CAR) moved higher (around +7% to +10%) amid strong trading momentum.

UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) gained strongly after reporting better-than-expected earnings and raising its outlook.

Cincinnati Financial (NASDAQ: CINF) plunged ~24%, making it one of the biggest premarket losers.

SBA Communications (NASDAQ: SBAC) declined ~7% amid weakness in select real estate and telecom names.

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