Wall St on track for muted open, with spotlight on tech results
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Spotify, General Motors jump after results
United Parcel Service slumps after missing Q2 estimates
Tesla, Alphabet to kick off Magnificent Seven earnings AMC
Futures: Dow flat, S&P 500 flat, Nasdaq down 0.17%
Updated at 8:49 a.m ET/1249 GMT
By Ankika Biswas and Lisa Pauline Mattackal
July 23 (Reuters) - Wall Street was set for a subdued open on Tuesday amid a mixed bag of corporate results, as investors awaited Big Tech earnings from Alphabet and Tesla later in the day to assess if the market's recent record rally has momentum to spare.
With investors returning to megacap growth stocks on Monday, the S&P 500 .SPX and the Nasdaq .IXIC logged their biggest one-day gain in more than a month, snapping a three-day losing streak triggered byinvestors exiting megacaptech stocks in favor of underperforming sectors.
Attention now turns to resultsfrom technology behemoths, which willbe key to determine whether 2024's record rally can be sustained as investors assess whether U.S. stocks are overvalued, or have more room to rise.
Alphabet GOOGL.O and Tesla TSLA.O, two of the so-called Magnificent Seven companies, are set to report quarterly results after markets close. In a largely mixed premarket session for the group, their shares were up 1% and 1.2%, respectively,
"Investors always reward growth, and if those smaller companies who've been overlooked for the first six months can show outperformance against their peers on a percentage basis, they're going to get the love," said Kim Forrest, chief investment officer at Bokeh Capital Partners.
"What we're really looking at is guidance. So if guidance continues to go up, small caps have a shot."
Amid a bevy of corporate earnings, Spotify Technology SPOT.N leapt14.1% after its second-quarterresults were broadly in line with estimates, while General Motors GM.N gained3.1% after posting asecond-quarter results beat and raising its annual profit forecast.
United Parcel Service UPS.N slumped10.3% after missing earnings estimates on subdued packagedelivery demand and higher labor-contract costs.
Coca-Cola KO.Nrose 0.6% after raising itsannual sales and profit forecasts.
Of the 74 S&P 500 companies that have reported quarterly results during this earnings season, 81.1% beat expectations, according to LSEG data on Monday.
At 8:49 a.m. ET, Dow e-minis 1YMcv1 were up 2 points, or 0%, S&P 500 e-minis EScv1 were down 0.75 points, or 0.01%, and Nasdaq 100 e-minis NQcv1 were down 34.75 points, or 0.17%.
Economic data scheduled for this week includes the Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index, the Fed's preferred inflation gauge, which will be crucial in assessing the monetary policy outlook against a backdrop of the recent inflation downtrend and signs the labor market is easing.
Bets of a 25-basis-point interest-rate cut by September have shot up to nearly 92%, from nearly 60% last month, according to CME's FedWatch Tool, with two rate cuts expected by the year end.
Among others, NXPSemiconductors NXPI.O slumped 7.5% after forecasting third-quarter revenue below estimates. Other chip stocks including ON Semiconductor ON.O, Texas Instruments TXN.O and Advanced Micro Devices AMD.O were also down between 1% and 3.5%.
AI chip favorite Nvidia NVDA.Oedged 0.3% lower after logging its steepest one-day gain in nearly a month in Monday's session.
Shares of Trump Media & Technology Group DJT.O slipped2.6% aftera choppy session on Monday followingPresident Joe Biden's withdrawalfrom the Democratic ticket and as VicePresident Kamala Harris become the party's presumed nominee.
Reporting by Ankika Biswas and Lisa Mattackal in Bengaluru; Editing by Shounak Dasgupta and Pooja Desai
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