The Day Ahead & News From After The Close For July 26th

In After Hours Trading

IPOs on deck today Kadmon Holdings (KDMN) Secondaries on deck this morning CDR VNOM WBA.In After Hours Trading: DOX +.03 APC +.19 BCR +.07 CB +.59 EW +.06 NCR +.08 PNRA +.04 RRC -1.16 X +.22 ZION +.03.

Lower Guidance: .

Mixed Guidance: .

Positive Guidance: .

What's Happening This Morning

U.S. futures: S&P +3.25, Dow Jones +43, NDX +34.75 and Russell 2000 +0.90 with fair value a bit lower. Asia higher ex China and Europe higher.Copper lower, silver and gold lower. WTI Crude and Brent Oil Futures lower. Natural Gas is lower. $ is lower vs Euro, higher vs. Pound and higher vs. Yen. US 10 year Treasury yield at 1.57% yield +1, one month change +14 and -64 one year change. Prices as of 7:55 a.m. EDT.

Top Sectors Energy, Materials and Industrial Goods.

Weak Sectors Utilities, Consumer Goods and Healthcare.

One month winners Basic Materials, Energy, Industrial Goods and Health Care.

Three Month Winners Energy, Materials, Healthcare and Utilities.

Six Month Winners Energy, Materials, Utilities and Industrial Goods.

One Year Winners Utilities, Technology and Industrial Goods.

Year To Date Utilities, Energy, Materials, Industrial Goods and Consumer Goods.

Earnings Expected

Earnings due after the close (by avg. trade volume): FB AMGN MCK PSA SU ORLY PXD ABX VRTX NXPI.Due Thursday morning (by avg. trade volume descending): BMY MA CELG AZN CL TMO DOW EPD F COP AMT ADP MMC CME PX.

Rags & Mags: Inside Wall Street

Bloomberg: The Bank of Japan announced $265 billion of new stimulus. U.K. GDP in the second quarter grew more than expected. Deutsche Bank (DB) put up awful numbers, more cost cuts ahead.

Reported Earnings This Morning

Reported Earnings This Morning (Best to Worst absolute beats/misses [+.02 or greater/-.02 or worse]): ANTH +.10 BA -2.68 CRI +.06 GLW +.05 GD +.13 HES +.14 IR +.08 NEE +.10 SLAB +.11 SO +.04 STT +.20 WM +.03 WYN +.03.Missing: .

Lower Guidance: KO HLT.

Current Morning missing: .

Mixed Guidance: .

Data Points

Yesterday saw 1823 stocks rise and 1148 fall on the NYSE. NASDAQ saw 1764 rise and 1087 fall.

YTD 4126 stocks are higher for 2016 and 2456 are lower. Updated 7/8/16 close.

Economics

June Durable Goods are due out at 8:30 a.m. EDT and are expected to improve to a loss of -1% from -2.3%.Weekly Crude Oil Inventories are due out at 10:30 a.m. EDT.

Politico

The Federal Reserve Open Market Committee (FOMC) concludes a two day meeting that culminates with a rate decision on Wednesday at 2:00 p.m. EDT.