{"id":48468,"date":"2026-04-20T12:04:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T12:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=48468"},"modified":"2026-04-20T12:04:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T12:04:31","slug":"us-stock-futures-fall-after-rally-as-mideast-tensions-flare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=48468","title":{"rendered":"US stock futures fall after rally as Mideast tensions flare"},"content":{"rendered":"
United States stock index futures inched lower on \u200bMonday after a record rally on Wall Street last week as dimming prospects of an end \u200cto the Iran conflict prompted investors to curb their risk appetite.<\/p>\n

Iran opened the Strait of Hormuz on Friday, prompting a buying frenzy across markets, with the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq hitting record highs for the third consecutive session. They also marked \u200btheir biggest weekly jumps since May.<\/p>\n

However, Tehran reimposed the closure of the waterway following the escalation in \u200btensions, after the US said it had seized an Iranian cargo ship that tried to \u2060run its blockade. Iran’s foreign ministry said on Monday that there were no plans for a second round of \u200bnegotiations with the US, as the blockade undermined the talks and differences over Tehran’s nuclear program remained.<\/p>\n

Oil prices jumped 5% \u200bon Monday, with US energy stocks higher in premarket trading. Exxon Mobil and Chevron gained 2% and 1.9%, respectively, while Occidental Petroleum added 2.5%.<\/p>\n

Read:\u00a0Iran rules out second round of US talks ‘for now’<\/p>\n

“Near-term escalation to gain an upper hand in negotiations cannot be ruled out,” said Mohit Kumar, an economist at Jefferies. “Our \u200bview remains that we are moving towards a deal. We are at a stage where it is not \u200bin the interest of either party to carry on with the war. The MAGA base of Trump does not want to \u200ccontinue, \u2060and Trump wants a deal. For IRGC, the objective is survival.”<\/p>\n

At 04:50am ET, Dow E-minis were down 303 points, or 0.61%, S&P 500 E-minis were down 35.75 points, or 0.50%, and Nasdaq 100 E-minis were down 140.5 points, or 0.52%.<\/p>\n

The CBOE Volatility Index, known as Wall Street’s “fear gauge”, gained after falling for the last eight \u200bsessions and was last up \u200b2.25 points at 19.73, \u2060a one-week high. Meanwhile, futures tracking the small-cap Russell 2000 index slipped 0.9% after the index notched a record high on Friday.<\/p>\n

Read More:\u00a0KSE-100 turns negative amid US-Iran tensions, sheds 2,935 points<\/p>\n

Quarterly earnings will be in focus as investors wait to \u200bassess the impact of the Iran war on corporate results and its fallout \u200bon the broader \u2060economy.<\/p>\n

Defence giants Lockheed Martin and RTX, alongside tech stocks such as IBM and ServiceNow, are scheduled to report later this week. Tesla will kick off results from the so-called “Magnificent Seven” cohort on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Among premarket movers, Marvell Technology advanced 6% \u2060after The \u200bInformation reported on Sunday that Alphabet’s Google is in talks with \u200bthe chipmaker to develop two new chips to run AI models more efficiently. QXO shares, meanwhile, dipped 3.6% after the construction supplies distributor struck a $17 billion deal \u200bon Sunday to acquire building products distributor and installer TopBuild.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

United States stock index futures inched lower on \u200bMonday after a record rally on Wall Street last week as dimming prospects of an end \u200cto the Iran conflict prompted investors to curb their risk appetite. Iran opened the Strait of Hormuz on Friday, prompting a buying frenzy across markets, with the S&P 500 and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}