US Pre-Market 27 October 2026: Nasdaq Futures +0.51% as Iran Peace Signal Lowers Oil; Celestica +11.88%
Sentiment: bullish S&P 500 futures: +0.38%
Nasdaq 100 futures are +0.51% and S&P 500 futures +0.38% at 8:33am ET on 27 October 2026 as December WTI falls 0.79% to $100.96 after Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei backed the conditions Iranian officials set to end the war, per ZeroHedge, outweighing a Houthi missile attack on Saudi Arabia's Ras Tanura refinery. CLS.US is +11.88% pre-market after Celestica beat third-quarter estimates and raised full-year guidance, per Benzinga. September durable goods orders rose 1.8%, per the Census Bureau, as the Fed opens its two-day meeting.
Overnight drivers
- Iran and oil: December WTI traded between $100.60 and $102.82 overnight, jumping on the Ras Tanura reports before reversing on the Khamenei remarks, per ZeroHedge. An Iranian ambassador floated a seven-day plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. XOM.US -0.62% and CVX.US -0.54% pre-market.
- AI financing: META.US -0.49% after Meta upsized its common stock sale to $25 billion, part of a package of up to $97.5 billion, per ZeroHedge. AVGO.US +3.14% after Broadcom arranged a $63 billion deal to finance chips for Anthropic and D.A. Davidson upgraded the stock.
- Memory and chips: MU.US +2.48%, AMD.US +1.78% and NVDA.US +1.01% pre-market, with SMH.US +1.51%. South Korea's KOSPI rose 3.09% on chip stocks, per Yahoo Finance. MSFT.US is -0.61% a day before its results.
- Rates and dollar: the 10-year Treasury yield closed Monday at 4.99%; Treasuries rallied overnight before a $70 billion 5-year note auction at 1pm, per ZeroHedge. DXY is +0.21% to 102.17 and December gold -0.22% to $4,029.50.
- Fed: the FOMC begins a two-day meeting today and is in its blackout period. Futures price about 10% odds of a hike on Wednesday, per CME Group data cited by Yahoo Finance.
Monday on Wall Street
The S&P 500 closed at 7,676.77 on 26 October 2026, up 0.70%, ending a two-week losing run after Anthropic's public IPO filing lifted chipmakers.
- S&P 500: 7,676.77 (+0.70%)
- Nasdaq: 26,169.38 (+0.82%)
- Dow: 52,361.58 (+0.28%)
- Russell 2000: 2,786.42 (+0.38%)
- VIX: 17.78 (-3.32% this morning)
57 of 60 stocks in a Yahoo Finance semiconductor basket rose on Monday, and the S&P 500 beat its equal-weighted version for the session. EWZ.US fell 19.82% after Brazil's election, and FICO.US lost 13.15%.
Overnight Asia and Europe
South Korea's KOSPI closed at 5,638.34 on 27 October 2026, up 3.09%, and the Nikkei 225 rose 1.73%, while the Shanghai Composite fell 1.33% and the FTSE 100 traded 0.82% lower.
- Nikkei 225: 63,268.37 (+1.73%)
- KOSPI: 5,638.34 (+3.09%)
- Hang Seng: 23,041.32 (-0.73%)
- Shanghai Composite: 3,648.30 (-1.33%)
- S&P/ASX 200: 8,850.10 (+0.46%)
- STOXX 600: 641.59 (+0.15%)
- DAX: 25,483.22 (+0.28%)
- CAC 40: 7,877.67 (+0.39%)
- FTSE 100: 10,679.12 (-0.82%)
HSBC.US is -7.00% pre-market after weak quarterly results, per Benzinga.
Pre-market movers
| Ticker | Move | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| MFIC.US | +22.61% | Ares Capital agrees to buy it at about $2.6 billion enterprise value |
| JBLU.US | +13.41% | Fourth-quarter unit revenue guidance of 18% to 22% growth |
| SOFI.US | +12.24% | Record $1.4 billion adjusted net revenue; full-year guidance raised |
| CLS.US | +11.88% | Q3 EPS $3.30 against $2.99 expected; guidance raised |
| RCL.US | +5.94% | Q3 adjusted EPS $6.57 against $6.38; profit outlook raised |
| XYL.US | -8.58% | Q3 revenue down 3% to $2.2 billion, flat organically |
| HSBC.US | -7.00% | Weak quarterly results |
| WHR.US | -6.96% | Q3 miss and third full-year guidance cut of 2026 |
| AWI.US | -4.75% | Q3 miss; full-year earnings forecast lowered |
| HLT.US | -4.44% | Q3 sales below estimates despite a higher RevPAR forecast |
- WHR.US -6.96% after Whirlpool posted an adjusted loss of $0.21 a share against expected earnings and revenue of $3.68 billion, down 8.8%, and guided to a 2026 loss of about $1.30 a share, per Investing.com.
- SOFI.US +12.24% after SoFi lifted 2026 guidance to $5.04 billion of adjusted net revenue and gave a 2027 outlook of $6.4 billion, per its 8-K filing. Adjusted EBITDA rose 70% to $470 million.
- BA.US -1.51% after Boeing reported revenue of $24.2 billion against $23.84 billion expected and a core loss of $0.34 a share against an expected $0.21 loss, per its 8-K and Benzinga. Backlog reached a record $745 billion.
- KO.US -0.11% after Coca-Cola posted adjusted EPS of $0.91 against $0.88 and 5% unit case volume growth, but reported slower demand in North America, per Yahoo Finance.
- UPS.US +1.80% after UPS raised its full-year revenue forecast to about $92.6 billion from $91.2 billion, per CNBC.
US economic calendar today (ET)
- 8:30am: September durable goods orders +1.8% to $345.4 billion against +1.7% expected, per the Census Bureau and Yahoo Finance. Ex-transportation orders rose 0.5%; transportation equipment rose 4.6%.
- 9:00am: FHFA and S&P Case-Shiller house prices for August.
- 10:00am: Conference Board consumer confidence for October, 80.5 expected against 81.9 prior; new home sales; Richmond Fed manufacturing.
- 1:00pm: $70 billion 5-year note auction.
- This week: FOMC decision Wednesday at 2:00pm; Alphabet and Microsoft report Wednesday after the close and Amazon Thursday; PayPal reports today.
What to watch
- Russell 2000 futures (+0.40%) and Dow futures (+0.36%) trail Nasdaq 100 futures (+0.51%), the same order as Monday's cash close.
- VIX is 17.78, down 3.32% from Monday's 18.39 close.
- December WTI at $100.96 sits $1.86 below its overnight high of $102.82.
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