Wednesday, April fifteenth, 2026
Pre-market futures this morning are flattish following better-than-expected financial studies and Q1 earnings within the finance sector. Don’t look now, however we’re rallying for the week: the Dow is +64 factors at this hour, the S&P 500 is +5 factors and the Nasdaq, which has been working scorching this week, is giving again -8 factors at the moment. (The Nasdaq has been up 10 straight buying and selling periods — the very best since 2021.) The small-cap Russell 2000 is -1 level.
Import Costs Decrease for March, Exports Larger
Import Costs for March got here out this morning, as buyers had been bracing for influence of power costs based mostly on the seven-week (to this point) warfare in Iran, which has clamped off the Strait of Hormuz and its 20% of world oil provide. But it surely didn’t occur: +0.8% on headline is 160 foundation factors (bps) decrease than the +2.4% anticipated, and down from the downwardly revised +0.9% for February. For the yr, Imports reached +2.1%, lower than half the +4.4% anticipated.
Subtracting risky gas costs, Imports got here in at a mere +0.2%. That is properly off the +1.1% analysts had been anticipating. It might stand to cause that larger oil costs — which did present up in yesterday’s PPI, which reported a “4-handle” for the primary time in three years — will present up in April Import Costs, however we received’t get forward of ourselves right here.
Export Costs had been larger, comparably, at +1.6% month over month, however nonetheless down 30 bps from the prior month’s print. Yr over yr, we see a determine that comes nearer to the place economists had been anticipating many of the numbers to have reached: +5.6%. That is the strongest degree since November of 2022. In fact, we all the time prefer to see Export Costs larger than Imports, however this situation seems to be short-term from this vista.
Empire State Manufacturing Swings to Constructive
The April learn on Empire State Manufacturing this morning additionally shocked to the upside: +11, from the -0.5 analysts had been projecting. It’s the third optimistic print on manufacturing in New York State prior to now 4 months, following final month’s unrevised -0.2. We’re seeing modest power in Empire State numbers over the previous yr, the truth is, after three years of largely detrimental prints.
Q1 Earnings at a Look: BAC, MS, PGR
Financial institution of America BAC reported Q1 earnings outcomes forward of right now’s opening bell, beating estimates by +11% to $1.11 per share for the quarter. Revenues of $30.27 billion was additionally larger than estimates, by +1.09%. Shares are up +2.3% in pre-market buying and selling at the moment, getting nearer to break-even yr up to now. For extra on BAC’s incomes’s click on right here.
Elsewhere, we see Morgan Stanley MS up +3% in pre-market buying and selling on its Q1 earnings beat, demonstrating power in its equities buying and selling income, which was +25% yr over yr. Progressive PGR shares are flat following a combined Q1 report, beating by 3 cents per share to $4.80 on earnings, however $22.19 billion in revenues missed the $22.59 billion estimate.
What to Anticipate After the Open
Whereas we all the time hold one eye on the most recent updates for the Strait of Hormuz and the Iran warfare, we additionally get a brand new Homebuilders Confidence survey after right now’s opening bell. Analysts anticipate a 37 for April, the place we’d been for 3 out of the previous six months. Homebuilder confidence is certainly up from the place we noticed outcomes final summer season, which had been down round 32.
Additionally later right now we’ll see the third Fed Beige Guide of 2026 to this point, which tracks the financial situations in every of its 12 districts. Outcomes final time round had been combined: seven of the areas reported slight-to-moderate development, whereas 4 had been flat-to-down. We search for the most recent Beige Guide at 2pm ET right now.
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