Wall Street begins the month of February in green in the heat of a sharp fall in gold and silver after a strong rebound in both precious metals. All this accompanied by earnings season in which the results of two of the Magnificent Seven are expected this week, Amazon y Alphabet-A. As the market evaluates what the nomination of Kevin Warsh as next chairman of the Federal Reserve (FED) Leaving a bullish close for the DOW JONES Ind Average, S&P 500 y NASDAQ 100 con +1.05 to 49,407 points, +0.57% to 6,978 points and +0.73% to 25,738 points respectively.
The decision to nominate Warsh is seen as a boost to efforts to reduce the balance sheet by 6.6 billion dollars of the Federal Reserve, although it opened the door to speculation about the interest rate trajectory. Most traders still expect two rate cuts by the end of the year, according to Yahoo Finance.
Analysts’ attention was also focused on the tensions between Washington and Tehranalthough Donald Trump has minimized the threats between both parties that arose last week between both countries.
«In the absence of threats of military action in Iran, Brent prices should quickly converge to the pre-crisis range of $60-65 per barrel, especially after OPEC confirmed its ‘wait and see’ strategy on Sunday,» he said. Claudio Galimberti, chief economist at Rystad Energy according to Yahoo Finance.
«The market is closely watching the viability of a middle power strategy, as the new EU-India free trade agreement does not explicitly distance either partner from the US or China, but rather establishes additional economic ballast to reduce dependence on US markets and Chinese products.»
But that was not the only news that Trump left us this Monday, the president also announced that US and India reached trade agreement.
As part of the agreement, the U.S. will reduce the base tariff on imports from India from 25% to 18%. In turn, India will stop buying Russian oil and «will move to reduce its tariff and non-tariff barriers against the United States to ZERO,» Trump posted.
On the corporate side, Financial Times published that Ford Motor held talks with the Chinese device and automobile manufacturer Xiaomi about creating a joint venture to manufacture electric vehicles (EV) in the United States according to four different sources shared by Yahoo Finance.
However, both companies came out to deny the news.
Ford’s top communications spokesperson posted on X.com that the FT story «is completely false. There is no truth to it at all.»
Xiaomi also added its statement on X.com: «This information about a joint venture with Ford Motor Company is completely false. Xiaomi does not sell its products or services in the United States and is not negotiating with any company to do so.»
After the ISM and manufacturing PMI, this afternoon we also had the The GDPnoons dement Ded The Etlanta (4t) with a result of 4.2%, same as before.
We also had public debt auction at 3 months (T-Bill) with a yield of 3,600% and at 6 months with 3,525%.
Among the winning actions we have Western Digital (+7.98% to $270.21), Sandisk (+15.44% to $665.24) and Caterpillar (+5.09% to $690.85)
Western Digital goes up in the anteroom of his Innovation Daywhere analysts will be attentive to various aspects such as the advantages of AI-driven mass storage needs or concerns about over-reliance on hard drives, according to Yahoo Finance.
In addition, comparisons are expected with respect to its competitors such as Seagate Hldgs y Micron Technolog.
This follows the solid results of the second quarter 2026 with a forecast for the third quarter higher than the previous consensus. Marking that demand for AI storage is driving the business.
SanDisk rises after reporting Second quarter revenue of $3 billion, up 31% year-over-yearsurpassing consensus estimates of $2.67 billion according to Investing. The growth was driven by a low-single percentage increase in bit shipments and average selling prices increasing in the mid-30s percentage range. This continues the company’s strong revenue growth trend, showing 23.6% revenue growth over the trailing twelve months.
Caterpillar rises after raising the target price by Freedom Capital Markets a 700 dollars with a maintain rating, according to Investing.
The research firm cited the Caterpillar’s record revenue performance in 2025 Despite facing significant pressure from import tariffs that totaled 1.7 billion dollars for the year. The company managed revenue of $67.59 billion with a growth of 4.29% compared to the previous year.
Among the winning actions we have IDEXX Labs (-4.60% to 639.60 dollars), Robinhood Mkts Rg-A (-9.62% to $89.91) and Walt Disney (-7.31% to 104.56 dollars)
Idexx falls despite presenting solid results for the fourth quarter 2025 con income that increased a 14% until 1.09 billion dollarsexceeding analyst expectations of $1.07 billion, driven by robust growth in its diagnostics for animals according to Investing.
The company’s forecasts for 2026, which projected income of $4.63-$4.72 billion and a earnings per share of $14.29-14.80were largely in line with analysts’ expectations.
Robinhood falls despite reiteration of rating better performance on the part of Mizuho with a target price in 172 dollarsaccording to Investing.
The investment firm highlighted the announcement of Robinhood UK on a Stocks and Shares ISA (Individual Savings Account) offering zero platform fees, no commissions, and a 2% cash bonus on new eligible contributions made before April 5, 2026.
Walt Disney also falls despite good results for the first quarter 2026 as we explained this afternoon at the opening of Wall Street.
The Mickey Mouse company scored a benefit in the first fiscal quarter of $2.48 billion, or $1.34 per share. After adjusting for extraordinary items, including the tax charge related to a deal with Fubo, Disney reported a adjusted earnings per share of $1.63 per sharehigher than the $1.57 that the market had anticipated. The income increased a 5% until the 25.980 millioncompared to the 25,740 million that analysts had expected.
Los Oil futures WTI caen one -4.60% at 62.21 dollars y Brent and -4.28% at 66.35 dollars.
He Oro falls a -1.06% to $4,694 per ounce and the Plata upload a +1.92% at 80.03 dollars.
The pair EUR/USD falls a -0.48% a 1.1793.
Bitcoin upload a +2.56% to $78,495.
He US 10-year bond yield upload a +0.92% a 4.283 already 30 years +0.84% to 4,913.
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