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Update: 9:52 a.m.

Opening Bell

The U.S. markets are opened for the day. This morning, the Nasdaq (+0.81%) is nearly one percent higher, trailed byS&P 500 (+0.39%), both rising amid excitement around this week’s forthcoming tech earnings. The Russell 2000 (-0.43%) and Dow (-0.83%) are lower by contrast.

For the Dow, the decline is led by UnitedHealth (-19.1%), which is off nearly 20% after the Trump administration announced that it would keep Medicare reimbursement rates for providers nearly flat next year. Peers such asCVS Health (-11.46%) and Humana (-20.34%) are also poorly situated this morning after the announcement, which has weighed on the broader health care.

That isn’t to say it’s necessarily a tale of two markets this morning; even though tech is currently lifting the Nasdaq and S&P 500, many software and IT-facing firms are in decline again today; so too is Oracle (-3.35%), which is facing backlash for the nearly three-day outage of TikTok.

However, when you look at tech, at least pockets of strength — even ecommerce giant Amazon (+0.99%) is outpacing the broader market today on news that it will shutter its physical grocery businesses.

The strength cannot be said for health care or financials which have offered alternatives to tech supremacy. I mean, just look at the S&P 500 this morning (updated at 10:31 a.m. ET):

That all said, here is what else is on deck:

Earnings Today: RTX, UnitedHealth, Boeing

Defense contractor RTX was wheels up this morning for the largest earnings report of the day, which mostly came together for the company after a beat on revenue and profit.

It was joined by commercial aviation giant Boeing, which saw sales jump 57% year-over-year after the company delivered the most aircraft since 2018, increasing optimism about a further step-up in deliveries.

UnitedHealth has also been made to answer for the future at an awkward time, given the big Medicare announcement. Those revelations overshadowed an earnings beat and light guidance.

Here are today’s top 20 earnings, sorted by market cap:

Economic Data: Home Prices, CB Consumer Confidence, Fed Event

As investors are seen digesting this week’s big earnings, they’ll also be readying for a Fed decision… that likely will mean no change in rates. The two-day Federal Open Market Committee meeting started today and is widely expected to reveal no change in policy tomorrow afternoon.

However, there are other economic reports to dig into, including the CB Consumer Confidence for January — which fell off a cliff month-over-month, down from 94.2 to 84.5. The decline was led by a 9.9 point drop in the “Present Situation Index” and a 9.5 drop in “The Expectations Index”, which came in at 65.1, a sign that the American public polled largely expects a recession ahead.

Here’s the array of reports today: