In stocks, Nvidia more than 1% rose as investors await Alphabet GOOGL earnings at market close. Shares also rose following a Wall Street Journal report that Tesla TSLA Chief Executive Elon Musk's xAI startup is looking to raise up to $12 billion to buy Nvidia chips to train xAI's Grok chatbot.

Stock futures are higher Wednesday as investors welcome news that the U.S. reached a trade agreement with Japan and prepare for the release of quarterly results from major technology companies.

US stocks closed mixed Tuesday, but the benchmark S&P 500 (^GSPC) was able to eke out a new record as Wall Street digested a new batch of earnings, including a tariff warning from General Motors (GM),

Dow Futures rise as US-Japan trade deal boosts markets; earnings from Alphabet, Tesla, and chipmaker woes in focus.

The Dow, S&P 500, and Nasdaq are mixed Tuesday as the stock market sifts through the latest second-quarter earnings results.

The yield on the 10-year hit a 52-week high of 4.896% on January 13, a week before Trump's second inauguration, and traded as low as 3.860% on April 4 before spiking to 4.607% on May 21, then settling at 4.431% on July 18.

Live Updates Live Coverage Updates appear automatically as they are published. Stocks Drop Near the End of Trading 4:10 pm Stocks lost momentum near the end of trading with the Dow Jones closing down slightly while the Nasdaq posted the best gains among major indexes.

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