{"id":82155,"date":"2026-07-15T17:05:46","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T07:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com.au\/blog\/?p=82155"},"modified":"2026-07-15T17:05:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T07:05:48","slug":"wednesday-15th-july-2026-u-s-stock-futures-rise-on-softer-inflation-as-markets-eye-earnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com.au\/blog\/wednesday-15th-july-2026-u-s-stock-futures-rise-on-softer-inflation-as-markets-eye-earnings\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday 15th July 2026: U.S. Stock Futures Rise on Softer Inflation as Markets Eye Earnings\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><br \/>Global Markets:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u00a0Asian Stock Markets : Nikkei up 1.29%, Shanghai Composite down 0.08% Hang Seng up 1.47% ASX up 0.32%<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Commodities : Gold at $4,037.85 (-0.78%) Silver at $58.740 (-0.62%), Brent Oil at 85.70 (1.16%), WTI Oil at $80.00 (0.86%)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rates : US 10-year yield at 4.598, UK 10-year yield at 4.9856, Germany 10-year yield at 3.0701<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">News &amp; Data:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>(USD) Core CPI m\/m\u00a0 50.6\u00a0 to 48.0\u00a0 expected<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Markets Update:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>U.S. stock futures edged higher early Wednesday after weaker-than-expected inflation data boosted investor confidence that the Federal Reserve may take a less aggressive approach to interest rate hikes. Dow Jones futures rose 0.1%, while S&amp;P 500 and Nasdaq 100 futures gained 0.2% and 0.7%, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wall Street advanced Tuesday after U.S. consumer prices fell 0.4% in June from the previous month, lowering annual inflation to 3.5%, below economists\u2019 expectations of 3.8%. Following the report, traders sharply reduced expectations of a July rate hike, though markets still anticipate at least one increase later this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Asian markets also traded higher. South Korea\u2019s Kospi surged 6.3%, while the Kosdaq climbed 4%. Japan\u2019s Nikkei 225 and Topix each gained 0.9%, and Australia\u2019s S&amp;P\/ASX 200 rose 0.6%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Investors are now focused on another busy day of corporate earnings, with United Airlines, Morgan Stanley, Johnson &amp; Johnson and BlackRock scheduled to report. The earnings season has started positively after major U.S. banks, including JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs, exceeded analysts\u2019 forecasts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, oil prices moved higher after the U.S. launched another round of strikes targeting Iranian military assets near the Strait of Hormuz, increasing concerns over potential disruptions to global energy supplies. West Texas Intermediate crude climbed above $80 per barrel, while Brent crude traded near $86.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Upcoming Events:<br \/><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>12:30 PM GMT &#8211; USD Core PPI m\/m<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global Markets: News &amp; Data: Markets Update: U.S. stock futures edged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":79441,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[196,215,339],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fundamental-analysis","category-market-analysis","category-recent-posts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82156,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82155\/revisions\/82156"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}