News Bulletin

Wednesday, May 20 2026
Morning Edition

 

Economic Numbers:

Time

Event

Actual

Forecast

Previous

Wednesday, May 20, 2026

7:00

MBA 30-Year Mortgage Rate

1:34

 

0.0646

7:00

MBA Mortgage Applications (WoW)

 

 

0.017

7:00

MBA Purchase Index

9:36

 

177.7

7:00

Mortgage Market Index

12:00

 

290.1

7:52

Mortgage Refinance Index

4:48

 

921.1

7:00

 

 

 

 

9:15

Fed Vice Chair for Supervision Barr Speaks

 

 

 

10:30

Crude Oil Inventories

 

-2.500M

-4.306M

10:30

Cushing Crude Oil Inventories

 

 

-1.702M

10:30

Heating Oil Stockpiles

 

 

0.153M

10:30

Gasoline Inventories

 

-2.100M

-4.084M

10:30

Crude Oil Imports

 

 

-0.318M

10:30

EIA Refinery Crude Runs (WoW)

 

 

0.370M

10:30

EIA Weekly Refinery Utilization Rates (WoW)

 

 

0.016

10:30

Gasoline Production

 

 

0.222M

10:30

Distillate Fuel Production

 

 

-0.124M

10:30

EIA Weekly Distillates Stocks

 

-1.100M

0.190M

14:00

FOMC Meeting Minutes

 

 

 


Indices
 

 

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50 DMA

200 DMA

 

DJIA

49,363.88

48,066.16

47,514.68

 

 

NASDAQ

25,870.71

23,703.47

23,008.23

 

S&P 500

7,353.61

6,941.64

6,792.06

 

Earnings Calendar:

(EPS: Earning Per Share / Rev: Revenue / Mkt Cap : market Capital)

Company

EPS

Consensus

Previous

Revenue

Consensus

Previous

MarketCap

Fiscal

Time

Nvidia NVDA

18:28

0.96

78.4B

44.1B

$4.78T

Q1

PM

TJX Companies TJX

4:33

0:14

0.92

14.3B

13.95B

13.1B

$174.22B

Q1

AM

Analog Devices ADI

2:09

20:24

1.85

3.62B

3.49B

2.64B

$172B

Q2

AM

Lowe's Companies LOW

0:43

23:16

2.92

23.08B

22.93B

20.93B

$150.5B

Q1

AM

Intuit INTU

13:40

11.65

8.53B

7.8B

$110.56B

Q3

PM

Target TGT

17:02

8:24

1.3

25.44B

24.31B

23.85B

$55.77B

Q1

AM

Nordson NDSN

19:26

2.42

727.25M

683M

$15.3B

Q2

PM

Hasbro HAS

11:16

0:00

0.7

1B

906.37M

887.1M

$14.22B

Q1

AM

Masimo MASI

10:19

1.36

398.65M

372M

$9.47B

Q1

AM

Chart Industries GTLS

11:16

1.86

1.12B

1B

$8.76B

Q1

AM

VF VFC

1:26

-0.13

2.17B

2.13B

2.22B

$7.85B

Q4

AM

Aimco AIV

 

-0.1

 

52.35M

$7.57B

Q1

PM

Enersys ENS

22:04

2.97

976.73M

975M

$7.37B

Q4

PM

Urban Outfitters URBN

5:45

1.16

1.45B

1.33B

$5.92B

Q1

PM

HUB HUBG

9:21

0.44

885.76M

915.22M

$2.38B

Q1

PM

Veris Residential CLI

 

-0.12

67.94M

67.76M

$1.76B

Q1

PM

Dorian LPG

21:21

11:31

0.25

153.5M

129.74M

75.9M

$1.22B

Q4

AM

 

Market News:

U.S. stock futures pointed higher on Wednesday, as investors geared up for crucial earnings from artificial intelligence semiconductor giant Nvidia and kept tabs on elevated government bond yields.

 

Spot gold prices were mostly steady on Wednesday, as investors weighed a recent jump in government bond yields and a stronger dollar against hopes for a detente in the Iran war.

 

Shares of Nvidia were higher as investors geared up for key quarterly earnings from the semiconductor giant after the closing bell on Wall Street.

 

Analog Devices gained after the group said it would acquire Empower Semiconductor for about $1.5 billion in cash, in a bid to grow its AI-focused power management operations.

 

Micron Technology advanced following news that rival Samsung Electronics is heading for a strike.

 

Energy majors Chevron and Exxon Mobil were both lower, as were oil and gas producers Occidental Petroleum, APA Corp, Diamondback Energy and Devon Energy, tracking a decline in oil prices following President Donald Trump's claim that the Iran war could end "very quickly." Yet a report in the Wall Street Journal suggested that there had been little progress in negotiations between Washington and Tehran.

 

Target shares were higher after the big-box chain doubled its annual sales growth forecast and posted its strongest quarterly sales increase in years.

 

Lowe's dipped following a warning on the state of the U.S. housing market from the home improvement goods seller, although the chain's quarterly sales still surpassed estimates.

 

AMC Entertainment shares spiked after CEO Adam Aron said he had bought 250,000 more shares and declared that he had "enormous confidence" in the movie theater group.

 

Cava Group rose after an influx of diners to its restaurants helped underpin an increase in the company's annual sales outlook.

 

Keysight Technology dipped following second-quarter results from the measurements instruments provider.

 

Toll Brothers edged up after the luxury homebuilder posted better-than-expected second-quarter profit and lifted its annual guidance.

 

Red Cat shares climbed after the drone maker announced the acquisition of power transfer firm Quaze Technologies.

 

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