Stock market today: Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq futures recover from bruising sell-off ahead of busy week Grace O'Donnell · Editor, Special Projects Updated Mon, November 2, 2026 at 7:00 AM EST 1 min read ^IXIC -2.86% BTC-USD +0.24% ^DJI -1.09% ^GSPC -1.82% AAPL -1.23% Trade BTC on Coinbase Trading disclosure Trading disclosure The above button links to Coinbase. Yahoo Finance is not a broker-dealer or investment adviser and does not offer securities or cryptocurrencies for sale or facilitate trading. Coinbase pays us for certain activity generated through this link. Prices displayed are informational.
US stock futures climbed in premarket trading on Monday as investors regained risk appetite ahead of another packed week of earnings, midterm elections, and a key jobs report.
Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average (YM=F) rose 0.4%, while those on the S&P 500 (ES=F) added 0.4%. Contracts for the Nasdaq-100 (NQ=F) jumped 0.8% higher after the index briefly entered into a correction.
Markets were poised to bounce back after an AI-fueled sell-off late last week that saw the Nasdaq Composite lose 5.2% during the month of October. Chipmakers and other tech names rebounded ahead of the market open, though Apple (AAPL) shares dipped slightly in the lead-up to the iPhone maker's earnings report after the bell on Monday.
Bitcoin (BTC-USD) rose slightly to trade near $78,000 per token after cryptocurrencies took a hit following a $6.3 billion hack of Binance, which investigators are calling the biggest crypto hack in history.
Crude oil prices, meanwhile, dropped amid reports that the US and Iran are seeking a diplomatic resolution to the war in the Middle East. Brent crude futures (BZ=F), the international benchmark, traded near $109 per barrel.
On the economic data front, investors will get a reading on US manufacturing activity and prices paid. The calendar for the rest of the week will feature several pieces of labor market data, culminating in the government's October jobs report on Friday.
Apple (AAPL) will report its fourth quarter earnings after the bell Monday, providing investors with a glimpse of early iPhone 18 Pro sales. Yahoo Finance's Dan Howley previews what to expect:
The iPhone Duo went up for preorder on Oct. 16 and went on sale Oct. 23, missing Apple's fiscal Q4, though the company could still offer color on demand.
This will also be Apple's first earnings call with new CEO John Ternus, who took over the role from Tim Cook on Sept. 1.
For the quarter, Apple is expected to report earnings per share (EPS) of $2 on revenue of $113.46 billion, according to Bloomberg analyst consensus estimates. The company saw EPS of $1.85 and revenue of $102.46 billion in the same period last year.
The 2026 campaign has featured bipartisan calls for action on pharmaceuticals, the housing market, and AI data centers, a sign that this trio of sectors may be in focus in Washington no matter which party prevails on Tuesday.
The critical comments are especially notable coming from Republicans as the campaign enters its final days. Democratic rhetoric about reining in big business is nothing new, but the GOP's focus indicates both an increased willingness within the party to adopt a populist stance and a potential openness to strike deals next year in the new power-sharing landscape.
And the high likelihood that Democrats will win control of at least one chamber of Congress could elevate these issues — with or without President Trump's support.
The coming year is likely to feature "meaningful opportunities and risks for key sectors," Stifel chief Washington policy strategist Brian Gardner wrote in a recent note to clients.
With another Big Tech company reporting earnings today (Apple (AAPL)) after the Street gave punishing post-earnings reactions to Alphabet (GOOG) and Amazon (AMZN) stocks last week, Yahoo Finance's Jake Conley offers some perspective on the market mood:
It was a deeply red week for the tech sector after a slew of earnings failed to give investors the signs of strength they were looking (and hoping) for.
At Alphabet, a miss on both revenue and profit sent shares falling 13% as Sundar Pichai said that while the company's search division had grown, the money wasn't keeping up as AI cuts into search monetization.
Down the street at Amazon, a double miss on both earnings and revenue triggered a sell-off that couldn't be stopped by strong cloud growth in AWS.
And we can't forget Intel, where a beat on earnings and in-line revenue were overshadowed by weakness in PC sales, attributed to heightened memory costs. That company lost a quarter of its value after the report, falling over 28%.
But there's a conundrum for investors in these earnings reports. As Barron's associate editor Al Root said to Yahoo Finance, the numbers weren't all bad; it's more like investors have gotten more demanding.
"It's not that the earnings were awful, it's just that it wasn't enough to support the market," Root said on "The 8:30." He added, "The level of nerves going into earnings season was so high, like everybody was waiting for the shoe to drop."
Economic data: S&P Global US manufacturing index, October final reading (56 prior); ISM manufacturing, October (54.7 expected, 54.5 prior); ISM prices paid, October (77.5 expected, 77.9 prior); ISM new orders, October (54.9 expected, 55.3 prior); ISM employment, October (52 expected, 52.7 prior); Construction spending, month-on-month, September (+0.5% expected, +0.9% prior)
Earnings calendar: Apple (AAPL), Palantir Technologies (PLTR), Vertex Pharmaceuticals (VRTX), Marriott (MAR), The Williams Companies (WMB), Diamondback Energy (FANG), Realty Income Corporation (O), Entergy (ETR), ON Semiconductor (ON), Ryanair Holdings (RYAAY), Fox Corp. (FOX), Roku (ROKU), Loews (L), Tower Semiconductor (TSEM), Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (LSCC)
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