09:12 AM EDT, 07/23/2026 (MT Newswires) -- Financial stocks were leaning lower pre-bell Thursday, with the State Street Financial Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLF) declining by 0.3%. The Direxion Daily Financial Bull 3X Shares (FAS) was down 1.2% and its bearish counterpart Direxion Daily Financial Bear 3X Shares (FAZ) was 1.2% higher. Nasdaq (NDAQ) shares were up more than 1%...

08:51 AM EDT, 07/23/2026 (MT Newswires) -- (Updates with economic data, recent oil price movement, world markets' overview and corporate stock movements.) US equity futures were lower pre-bell Thursday as traders considered the possibility of the Middle East conflict spreading to a new front in the Red Sea, lifting oil prices closer to the $100 mark. Dow Jones Industrial Average...

08:57 AM EDT, 07/23/2026 (MT Newswires) -- Healthcare stocks were flat to higher premarket Thursday, with the iShares Biotechnology ETF (IBB) inactive and the State Street Health Care Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLV) up 0.2%. Thermo Fisher Scientific ( TMO ) shares were up more than 6% after the company reported higher fiscal Q2 adjusted earnings and revenue. ...

08:54 AM EDT, 07/23/2026 (MT Newswires) -- Technology stocks were mixed premarket Thursday, with the State Street Technology Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLK) down 0.8% and the State Street SPDR S&P Semiconductor ETF (XSD) 0.1% higher. Alphabet's (GOOG, GOOGL) Google ( GOOG ) was fined a total of 890 million euros ($1.04 billion) by the European Commission on Thursday after...