Traders Drive Up Equity Futures in Anticipation of Upbeat Earnings Traders expecting upbeat earnings reports this week are helping to drive up stock index futures this morning.
In particular, two favorable earningsreports from major components of the Dow Jones Industrials lifted the venerable average, and broader measures also followed suit on generally upbeat views of the immediate future for the financial markets.
In an upbeat Q1 earningsreport with investors Tuesday, Apple said it sold 5.4 million Macs en route to an all - time quarterly revenue record of $ 78.4 billion dollars.