US stock futures fell Tuesday, weighed by heightened geopolitical tensions after Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a thinly-veiled nuclear threat to the US.
Here are some of the biggest premarket US stock movers today:
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Walmart (NYSE: WMT ) stock rose 3.8% after the retail giant reported better-than-expected results for the third quarter, and hiked its annual earnings outlook.
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Lowe’s (NYSE: LOW ) stock fell 1.4% after the home improvement retailer reported a drop in annual comparable sales, reflecting continued softness in DIY bigger-ticket discretionary demand.
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Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL ) stock fell 0.7% after Bloomberg reported the Department of Justice could recommend the tech giant sell off its Chrome browser as part of an antitrust crackdown.
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Super Micro Computer (NASDAQ: SMCI ) stock soared over 26% after the troubled server maker said it had appointed a new auditor and was on track to file its financial reports for the year.
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Medtronic (NYSE: MDT ) stock rose 0.2% after the medical tech company lifted the lower end of its annual profit forecast for a second time, banking on sustained demand for its medical devices in the US.
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Trump Media & Technology Group (NASDAQ: DJT ) stock fell 4.9%, handing back some of the previous session’s 16% gains following a report that the social media company was in talks to buy crypto trading platform Bakkt.
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Berry Global (NYSE: BERY ) stock rose 4.4% after the packing company agreed to be acquired by Amcor (NYSE: AMCR ), down 1.1%, for about $8.4 billion in a sign that the merger landscape is starting to heat up.
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BioNTech (NASDAQ: BNTX ) stock rose 1.9% after Evercore ISI upgraded its stance on the drugmaker to ‘outperform’ from ‘in line’, citing a combination of opportunism, a cheap valuation, and an increasingly compelling fundamental outlook around its “deep and staggered” oncology pipeline.