5 things to know before markets open on Monday

good morning. Several pharmaceutical stocks are rising this morning following the recent hantavirus outbreak. Officials say the public health risk from the virus is low.

Stock futures were little changed this morning after a strong week for all three major indexes.

Here are five important things investors need to know to start their trading day.

President Donald Trump yesterday called Iran’s response “totally unacceptable” in a post on Truth Social and rejected Iran’s counter-offer to the US peace proposal.

Here’s what you need to know:

Iran’s offer reportedly focuses on the need to end the conflict and lift sanctions on Tehran, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying in a recorded interview on CBS broadcast last night that the war was “not over yet” and that “there is still nuclear material and enriched uranium that has to be taken out of Iran.” Industry executives are already warning stakeholders that the war has profoundly changed global energy markets. Despite the rise in crude oil prices, stock futures are mostly flat this morning. Follow live market updates here.

of S&P500 and Nasdaq Composite Last week ended at a record high, with both having their longest weekly winning streaks since 2024. alphabet I also feel grateful.

Google’s parent company’s stock has risen more than 160% in the past 12 months, making it the best-performing $1 trillion US tech company over the same period. Alphabet briefly topped the list as traders increasingly see it as an artificial intelligence winner NvidiaMarket capitalization in extended trading last week.

This feat didn’t last long, as Nvidia fell behind other chipmakers. advanced micro device and intel It rose sharply last week. As CNBC’s Cristina Parsineveros and Ashley Caputo report, Nvidia is ramping up its investment in AI, making more than $40 billion in equity investments so far this year.

Many YouTube content creators are getting help from a network of strategists in hopes of increasing their virality and income on the video platform. These so-called YouTube whisperers charge thousands of dollars a month for insights into what resonates with viewers and how to master their algorithms.

YouTube is expected to spotlight a number of notable creators at its Upfront advertising presentation in New York City this week. The Alphabet-owned platform accounts for more than 12% of all U.S. streaming, outpacing major media companies such as: Netflix and disneysays Nielsen.

President Sanjiv Yajnik capital one The auto industry isn’t too worried about rising auto debt or “permanent loans.” That’s because consumers don’t necessarily spend a lot of their paychecks on cars, he told CNBC’s Michael Weiland.

According to data from Capital One Auto, the percentage of income spent on cars has remained roughly flat since 2019, with monthly car payments increasing by $390 to $525 over the same period, but the increase in earnings has kept payments as a percentage of income at about 10%.

“Consumers are being cautious, they’re being responsible, and this is a much healthier approach than the alternative, because it’s not discretionary spending,” Yajnik told CNBC.

target I want to get my family back from walmart. As CNBC’s Melissa Repko reports, the plan begins with the baby aisle.

This spring, the company opened “baby boutiques” in about 200 stores, or about 10% of its total stores. In the revamped section, shoppers can try out high-end products like UPPAbaby’s $1,000 stroller, as well as some of 2,000 new baby products.

Families are a key consumer segment for Target as it seeks to reverse years of slumping sales. Kara Sylvester, Target’s head of merchandising, told CNBC that families with children visit stores twice as often as the average shopper. Additionally, those with children under the age of six will spend twice as much.

Here’s what we’re looking at this week:

Tuesday: under armor Income (before the bell). Consumer price index for Wednesday, April: Cisco Income (after the bell). Producer Price Index for Thursday, April: Versant Media Income (before the bell), figma Income (after the bell). April retail sales data

—CNBC’s Soda Baimiya, Aneek Bao, Garrett Downs, Spencer Kimball, Li Ying Xiang, Mackenzie Sigalos, Samantha Subin, Christina Parsineveros, Ashley Caputo, Alex Sherman, Zach Varese, Michael Weiland and Melissa Repko contributed to this report.

Davis Giangiulio helped produce this newsletter. Josephine Rozzelle edited this version.

Disclosure: Versant is the parent company of CNBC.