{"id":118399,"date":"2025-09-03T16:16:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T12:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/?p=118399"},"modified":"2025-09-03T16:16:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T12:16:10","slug":"u-s-futures-rise-as-alphabet-antitrust-ruling-boosts-sentiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/u-s-futures-rise-as-alphabet-antitrust-ruling-boosts-sentiment\/09\/03\/market-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Futures Rise as Alphabet Antitrust Ruling Boosts Sentiment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>U.S. equity futures ticked higher on Wednesday, recovering from a weak start to the holiday-shortened week. Investors welcomed news that Alphabet avoided the harshest penalties in a landmark antitrust ruling, while attention also turned to a wave of corporate earnings reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Futures Snapshot<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>S&amp;P 500 Futures:<\/strong> +0.3%<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Nasdaq 100 Futures:<\/strong> +0.5%<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Dow Jones Futures:<\/strong> +0.2%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The gains come after Wall Street closed lower on Tuesday, weighed by tariff concerns and upcoming economic data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Alphabet Surges After Court Ruling<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL)<\/strong> jumped more than <strong>5% in extended trading<\/strong> after Judge Amit Mehta ruled that Google would not be forced to divest its Chrome browser or halt payments to Apple and others for product pre-installations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The decision spares Google from one of the most severe potential penalties in the Justice Department\u2019s case, even as the court reaffirmed that it held a monopoly in search.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL)<\/strong> also traded higher, benefiting from the decision to maintain Google\u2019s default search placement on iPhones.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Corporate Movers<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Macy\u2019s (NYSE: M):<\/strong> Shares surged after the retailer posted <strong>better-than-expected Q2 results<\/strong> and raised full-year guidance. Comparable sales rose at the strongest pace in three years.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Dollar Tree (NASDAQ: DLTR):<\/strong> Raised its annual outlook as value-seeking shoppers boosted demand. Still, shares slipped after analysts at <strong>Vital Knowledge<\/strong> warned its results weren\u2019t \u201cas robust as they look.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Kraft Heinz (NASDAQ: KHC):<\/strong> Shares edged higher after <strong>Morgan Stanley<\/strong> upgraded the stock to <em>equal-weight<\/em> from <em>underweight<\/em>. Analysts said the firm\u2019s plan to split into two separate companies would limit downside risks.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS):<\/strong> Gained in premarket after delivering <strong>revenue above Wall Street expectations<\/strong> and issuing a strong forecast, citing robust cybersecurity demand.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. equity futures ticked higher on Wednesday, recovering from a weak start to the holiday-shortened week. Investors welcomed news that Alphabet avoided the harshest penalties in a landmark antitrust ruling, while attention also turned to a wave of corporate earnings reports. Futures Snapshot S&amp;P 500 Futures: +0.3% Nasdaq 100 Futures: +0.5% Dow Jones Futures: +0.2% &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":96042,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6827,39,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-daily-economic-reports","category-global-stock-markets","category-market-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118400,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118399\/revisions\/118400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}