Devik Jain & Ambar Warrick

(Reuters) – U.S. Stock Index Futures dropped on Tuesday due to rising Treasury yields. However, bank shares gained as investors valued an earlier Federal Reserve policy tightening.

Premarket trading saw bank stocks rise, following gains in yields. Market expectations of an interest rate increase by June 2022 were raised after Jerome Powell was reappointed as Fed Chair. [US/]

Wall Street’s top lenders saw an increase of 0.2% to 0.8%. Citigroup Inc (NYSE: ) leads gains

With majors such as Meta Platforms, rising yields continue to impact technology stocks. Microsoft Corp Apple Inc (NASDAQ) fell between 0.3% and 0.5% Large tech stocks are more sensitive to yields because investors tend to discount future earnings in favor of returns on debt.

Both the Nasdaq was and had fallen to new record highs Monday due to Powell’s election, which sparked volatile trading.

Investors were also concerned by rising inflation. They feared that higher prices would have a longer-lasting economic effect than they expected.

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At 6:19 a.m. ET fell 40 points or 0.11%. were down 10 points or 0.21% while they were down 77 points, or0.47%.

Premarket Movers include Zoom Video Communications (NASDAQ:) Inc dropped 8.8% following its 3Q revenue decline to 35%. This was due to a decrease in demand for videoconferencing software that had been fueled by pandemics.

XPeng Inc gained 4.2% due to the optimistic outlook and third quarter results of electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla. The other EV producers, like Tesla (NASDAQ) Inc, and Lucid Group, declined.