Stock futures fall after record-setting week for Wall Street; traders await Nvidia and retail earnings: Live updates

Cnbc · 🇮🇷 public Iran · May 17, 2026 · 315 words · By Fred Imbert

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Stock futures fell on Sunday night following a record-setting week, with traders awaiting quarterly results from Nvidia and major U.S.

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What happened

Stock futures fell on Sunday night following a record-setting week, with traders awaiting quarterly results from Nvidia and major U.S.

Why it matters

Investors also kept an eye on the U.S.-Iran war.

Common ground

Dow Jones Industrial Average futures slipped 114 points, or 0.2%.

Perspective signals

The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 17 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “In the U.K., the 30-year Gilt yield scaled to levels not seen since the late 1990s”

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Claim 2: “President Donald Trump said Iran had to "get moving" or there "won't be anything left"”

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This claim was extracted as a checkable statement from the article. eFinder labels it pending based on the available evidence and source context shown below.

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Claim 3: “Walmart is due to post results Thursday”

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The evidence provided consists of Walmart's homepage and location listings, with no mention of earnings report dates.

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web search NEUTRAL — Shop Walmart.com today for Every Day Low Prices. Join Walmart+ for unlimited free delivery from your store & free shipping with no order minimum. Start your free 30-day trial now!
https://www.walmart.com/

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web search NEUTRAL — Find 92 listings related to Walmart in Seattle on YP.com. See reviews, photos, directions, phone numbers and more for Walmart locations in Seattle, WA.
https://www.yellowpages.com/seattle-wa/walmart

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web search NEUTRAL — Explore all Walmart locations in Seattle, WA, with contact details, opening hours, services, and more on our interactive map
https://mapdoor.com/us/wa/seattle/walmart

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Claim 4: “the Dow briefly reclaimed the 50,000 level”

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No evidence was found after searching for the Dow reclaiming the 50,000 level.

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Claim 5: “Dow Jones Industrial Average futures slipped 114 points, or 0.2%”

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The provided evidence for this claim consists of general Wikipedia descriptions of the Dow Jones and live trading links, but no specific data confirming a 114-point or 0.2% slip.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This article is a summary of the closing milestones of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, a United States stock market index. Since first closing at 62.76 on February 16, 1885, the Dow Jones Industrial…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closing_milestones_of_the_Dow_…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Dow Jones Global Indexes (DJGI) is a family of international equity indexes, including world, region, and country indexes and economic sector, market sector, industry-group, and subgroup indexes c…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dow_Jones_Global_Indexes

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Dow Jones Utility Average (DJUA, also known as the "Dow Jones Utilities") is a stock index from S&P Dow Jones Indices that tracks the performance of 15 prominent utility companies traded in the Un…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dow_Jones_Utility_Average

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Claim 6: “The S&P 500 and Nasdaq hit fresh record highs last week”

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Two independent web search results confirm that the S&P 500 and Nasdaq hit record highs (one citing AI optimism and another citing a positive start to the trading week).

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — S&P 500 Futures are financial futures which allow an investor to hedge with or speculate on the future value of various components of the S&P 500 Index market index. S&P 500 futures contracts were fir…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S&P_500_futures

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The S&P 500 is a stock market index maintained by S&P Dow Jones Indices. It comprises 503 common stocks which are issued by 500 large-cap companies traded on American stock exchanges (including the 30…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_S&P_500_companies

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The NASDAQ Composite (ticker symbol ^IXIC) is a stock market index that includes almost all stocks listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange. Along with the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500, it is o…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasdaq_Composite

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Claim 7: “Nvidia is set to report earnings Wednesday along with Target”

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The evidence provided only contains general company descriptions for Nvidia and does not mention earnings dates for Nvidia or Target.

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web search NEUTRAL — Nvidia ... Nvidia Corporation[a] (/ ɛnˈvɪdiə / en-VID-ee-ə) is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia

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web search NEUTRAL — Artificial Intelligence Computing Leadership from NVIDIA: inventor of the GPU, which creates interactive graphics on laptops, workstations, mobile devices, notebooks, PCs, and more.
http://www.nvidia.com/page/home.html

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web search NEUTRAL — From the cloud to the office to the data center to the edge, NVIDIA provides solutions that deliver breakthrough performance on enterprise AI and HPC workloads at any scale, driving business decisions…
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/

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Claim 8: “Ed Yardeni, president of Yardeni Research”

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Claim 9: “Kevin Warsh, newly instated as Fed chief”

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Claim 10: “The Nasdaq-100 index dropped 1.5% on Friday, marking its worst one-day performance since March 27”

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Claim 11: “The U.S. 30-year Treasury bond yield hit its highest level in around a year”

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No evidence was found after searching for the 30-year Treasury bond yield hitting a one-year high.

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Claim 12: “long-dated Japanese bond yields [scaled to levels not seen since the late 1990s]”

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This claim was extracted as a checkable statement from the article. eFinder labels it pending based on the available evidence and source context shown below.

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Claim 13: “Stock futures fell on Sunday night”

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Two independent web search results explicitly state that U.S. stock futures declined on Sunday evening/night.

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web search NEUTRAL — U.S. stock-market futures declined Sunday, after stocks rallied Friday on fresh hopes of a September rate cut by the Fed.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/u-stock-futures-slip-followin…

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web search NEUTRAL — U.S. stock futures experienced a decline on Sunday evening, as investors braced for the Federal Reserve’s upcoming interest rate decision and weighed concerns about the possibility of a federal govern…
https://goldenstatereview.com/u-s-stock-futures-decline-ahea…

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web search NEUTRAL — U.S. stock futures declined. Istanbul, February 26 (Hibya) – U.S. stock futures declined on Wednesday night as investors focused on the earnings reports of Nvidia and Salesforce.
https://usanewsagency.com/us-stock-futures-declined-26856

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Claim 14: “West Texas Intermediate futures were up 1.8% at $107.26 per barrel”

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The evidence provided includes general definitions of WTI from Wikipedia and irrelevant search results about West Vancouver; no specific price data of $107.26 is present.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A benchmark crude or marker crude is a crude oil that serves as a reference price for buyers and sellers of crude oil. There are three primary benchmarks, West Texas Intermediate (WTI), Brent Blend, a…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benchmark_(crude_oil)

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — West Texas is a loosely defined region in the U.S. state of Texas, generally encompassing the arid and semiarid lands west of a line drawn between the cities of Wichita Falls, Abilene, and Del Rio. No…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Texas

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — West Texas Intermediate (WTI) is a grade or mix of crude oil; the term is also used to refer to the spot price, the futures price, or assessed price for that oil. In colloquial usage, WTI usually refe…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Texas_Intermediate

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Claim 15: “Brent oil advanced 1.5% to $110.67”

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The evidence provided contains general information about Brent Crude and a YouTube video about an 11-year low, but no confirmation of a 1.5% advance to $110.67.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Brent may refer to: Brent (name), an English given and surname
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brent

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Brent Crude is the trading classification for the types of petroleum—sweet crude oil and light crude oil—first extracted from the Brent oilfield in the North Sea in 1976. The term Brent Crude also ide…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brent_Crude

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Icon is the third studio album by American musician Brent Faiyaz. It was released on February 13, 2026, through ISO Supremacy and UnitedMasters, as the follow-up to his second studio album, Wasteland …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icon_(Brent_Faiyaz_album)

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Claim 16: “Both countries [U.S. and Iran] are still in negotiations to end the war”

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Claim 17: “S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100 futures dipped around 0.1%”

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The web results show various different percentage changes for S&P 500 and Nasdaq futures (e.g., 1.9% and 1.6%, or 0.7% and 0.4%), but none confirm a 0.1% dip for both.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Nasdaq-100 (NDX) is a stock market index made up of equity securities issued by 100 of the largest non-financial companies listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange. It is a modified capitalization-weighted…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasdaq-100

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Standard and Poor's 100, or simply the S&P 100, is a stock market index of United States stocks maintained by Standard & Poor's. The S&P 100 is a subset of the S&P 500 and the S&P 1500, and holds …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S&P_100

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