Oliver Gray 

Investing.com – traded higher during Monday’s evening deals as market participants brace for one of the busiest weeks of the corporate earnings season.

At 6:35 PM ET (11:35 GMT), the stock had increased 0.3%, gained 0.3%, and was up 0.5% by 0.5%

Before the opening bell on Tuesday, Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:) and The Travelers Companies Inc (NYSE:) are set to report their latest results, while Hasbro Inc (NASDAQ:), Lockheed Martin Corporation (NYSE 🙂 Citizens Financial Group Inc Reporting by (NYSE:) is also planned.

Investors will also be searching for new March housing data Tuesday.

During Monday’s trade, slid 39.54 points or 0.1%, to 34,411.69, the remained little changed at 4,391.69 and the lost 0.1% to 13,332.36.

The regular session was a mixed bag for technology companies. Block Inc (NYSE) dropped 1.6% and Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ) increased 0.7%. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ) decreased 0.1%, while NVIDIA Corporation(NASDAQ:] added 2.5%.

Meanwhile, Twitter Inc (NYSE:) rose 7.5%, after the social media company launched a limited duration shareholder rights plan, or “poison pill,” to thwart Tesla (NASDAQ:) CEO Elon Musk’s bid to take the company private.

Financials moved higher, as JPMorgan Chase & Co (NYSE:) added 1.9%, Citizens Financial Group Inc (NYSE:) gained 0.9%, Citigroup Inc (NYSE 🙂 was up 2.7% Morgan Stanley (NYSE:) grew 2%. Bank of America Corp. (NYSE:) was 3.4% better after its second quarter results, which were superior on the bottom and top lines.

In anticipation of Federal Reserve officials tightening monetary policy, the rates on bond markets were at or near their 40-month peak of 2.857%.