(Editor’s note: The future prices of benchmark tracking ETFs, the lede, and the headline were updated in the story.)
U.S. stock futures fell on Tuesday following Monday’s sharp resurgence. Futures of the major benchmark indices were lower.
President Donald Trump‘s Truth Social post on Monday said the U.S. and Iran have held “very good and productive talks” on resolving hostilities, and the strikes would be paused for the next five days.
However, senior Iranian officials rejected the claims. Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said in a social media post on Monday that “no negotiations” happened with the U.S. and that Trump’s announcement was a way to manipulate markets.
Meanwhile, revised U.S. productivity figures for the fourth quarter of 2025 revealed a cooling efficiency landscape, with nonfarm business sector labor productivity growth marked down to a 1.8% annualized rate from the previously estimated 2.8%.
This downward revision was driven primarily by a 1.1-percentage-point drop in output, while unit labor costs surged by 4.4%—significantly higher than the initial 2.8% projection.
The 10-year Treasury bond yielded 4.35%, and the two-year bond was at 3.86%. The CME Group’s FedWatch tool‘s projections show markets pricing an 85.5% likelihood of the Federal Reserve leaving the current interest rates unchanged in its April meeting.
Index
Performance (+/-)
Dow Jones
-0.07%
S&P 500
-0.05%
Nasdaq 100
0.07%
Russell 2000
-0.01%
The SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE:SPY) and Invesco QQQ Trust ETF (NASDAQ:QQQ), which track the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100, respectively, were lower in premarket on Tuesday. The SPY was down 0.19% at $654.11, while the QQQ declined 0.17% to $587.00.
Stocks In Focus
Applied Optoelectronics
Applied Optoelectronics Inc. (NASDAQ:AAOI) rose 4.16% in premarket on Tuesday after it announced that one of its major hyperscale customers placed an initial volume order for 800G single-mode data center transceivers totaling more than $53 million.
Benzinga’s Edge Stock Rankings indicate that AAOI maintains a strong price trend over the long, short, and medium terms.
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