Stock futures today: Live updates

It’s a big week for central banks — both within the U.S. and abroad.

The Federal Reserve begins its two-day policy meeting Tuesday. Traders are pricing in a 99% probability the Fed skips a rate hike when announcing policy on Wednesday, according to CMEGroup’s FedWatch tool, which gauges pricing in fed funds futures. The Fed will also offer market forecasts on Wednesday.

The central banks of multiple other countries are also expected to announce policy decisions this week. Here’s a list of the countries scheduled to release decisions in the 36 hours following the Fed’s announcement expected at 2 p.m. ET on Wednesday, per Bespoke Investment Group:

• Brazil
• Indonesia
• Japan
• Norway
• South Africa
• Sweden
• Switzerland
• Taiwan
• Turkey
• The United Kingdom

Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist at CFRA Research, said investors around the globe “are on edge waiting to find out what their central banks are likely to do.”

— Alex Harring

Check out the companies making headlines before the bell:

• Carnival, Royal Caribbean Group — The cruise lines both gained about 2% after being upgraded by Truist. The Wall Street firm moved Royal Caribbean to buy from hold and Carnival to hold from sell, citing forward-looking trends for 2024 and 2025 that look “exceptionally strong.” Truist maintained its hold rating on Norwegian Cruise Lines, which was up more than 1% in premarket trading.
• Deere & Company, CNH Industrial — The two stocks slid in the premarket after Evercore ISI downgraded each to in-line from outperform, citing agricultural production cuts. Deere fell 1.4%, CNH declined 1.2%.
• Starbucks — Shares fell 1.2% after TD Cowen downgraded the coffee giant over the “worrisome” macro backdrop in China. The firm believes slower consumer spending in China could hit share growth and affect Starbucks’ multiple.

Read the full list here.

— Sarah Min

Starbucks shares slid more than 1% before the bell after TD Cowen said slower consumer spending and macroeconomic headwinds China could hurt the coffee chain.

The firm downgraded the stock to market perform from outperform on Tuesday.

“While we forecast consensus 2023-25E EPS is achievable, in our view the multiple isn’t discounted enough vs the 5Y [average] that leads us to expect shares will be in a holding pattern,” analyst Andrew Charles said. “We like the long-term story but move to the sidelines as we monitor China macro & competitive dynamics.”

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— Brian Evans

The three major indexes finished Monday’s session little changed as investors readied for the Federal Reserve meeting that begins Tuesday.

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The Dow ended the session 0.02% higher, while the Nasdaq Composite inched up just 0.01%. Meanwhile, the S&P 500 was the most changed with a gain of 0.07%.

— Alex Harring

European markets opened lower Tuesday, with investors looking ahead to the start of the U.S. Federal Reserve’s two-day monetary policy meeting.

The pan-European Stoxx 600 index opened 0.2% lower, with sectors spread across tentatively positive and negative territory. Health-care stocks made the biggest losses, down 0.7%, while travel and leisure stocks were up 0.2%.

— Hannah Ward-Glenton

The CEO of Square is set to depart the company, according to regulatory filings released Monday.

Alyssa Henry is slated to leave the unit of fintech company Block on Oct. 2 after more than nine years at the company.

Shares of Block dipped nearly 2% in extended trading.

— Samantha Subin

Ark Invest’s Cathie Wood reiterated her massively bullish call on her EV darling Tesla, seeing it hitting $2,000 in five years driven largely by a robotaxi boom.

“About a third of our valuation is associated with electric vehicles,” Wood said on CNBC’s “Fast Money” Monday. “Two thirds of our evaluation is around autonomous [driving] and autonomous taxi platforms.”

Wood’s bear case on Tesla is a $1,400 target by 2027 and $2,500 as her bull case. Tesla is the biggest holding in her flagship Ark Innovation ETF (ARKK) fund, with a 11.5% weighting. Shares of Tesla have mpre than doubled this year after losing 65% in 2022.

— Yun Li

Instacart priced its IPO at $30 a share Monday evening, valuing the grocery delivery company at roughly $10 billion.

The company is set to debut Tuesday on the Nasdaq under the “CART” ticker symbol.

The puts the offering at the top end of the $28 to $30 a share range expected.

— Ari Levy, Samantha Subin

Stock futures opened little changed on Monday evening as Wall Street looked ahead to the start of the Federal Reserve’s policy meeting.

Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average added 13 points, or 0.03%, while S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq 100 futures inched up 0.02% and 0.06%, respectively.

— Samantha Subin