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(Reuters) U.S. stock index futures eased on Tuesday ahead of data on manufacturing activity and job openings, with earnings from companies such as Exxon Mobil and Google parent Alphabet due later in the day.

Investors will hear from Alphabet on Tuesday, along with General Motors, Exxon and Starbucks, while the ISM manufacturing index will also be in focus.

Cybereason, a cybersecurity company backed by SoftBank and Alphabet, has confidentially filed for a stock market listing in the U.S., according to Reuters.

The major US indices are open up with mixed results. The Dow and S&P are lower while the NASDAQ index is trading higher. The Russell 2000 which fell over 20% from its high last week is currently down as well.This week, there will be a number of key earnings releases. AMD, Paypal, Alphabet, GM, Starb

Key Events This Week: ECB, BOE, Payrolls, Euro CPI And Earnings Galore It''s a relatively busy week with several key central bank announcements, notably from the ECB and BOE, as well as European CPI updates and the US payrolls report on Friday. Starting with the ECB, Deutsche Bank economists now expect a policy rate liftoff in December 2022 of 25bps, a view apparently shared by the market this morning. Theyre also anticipating a faster pace of tightening, with 25bp hikes in the deposit rate per quarter from December 2022, until rates reach +0.5% in September 2023. In terms of what it means for this February meeting, they write in their preview that they expect the slow, step-by-step pivot to exit will continue. Their view is that President Lagarde will reiterate the ECBs capacity to act once the inflation criteria in the rates guidance are met, whilst at the same time differentiating the needs of the Euro Area from the US. The other central bank decision that day is from the Bank of England, where expectations are for the BoE to follow up their December rate hike with another 25bps increase, taking the Bank Rate to 0.5%.

Alphabet (GOOGL) is slated to report fourth-quarter results after the close of trading tomorrow, and Monness Crespi Hardt analyst Brian White believes the company will show it is

US Futures Start The Week With More Wild Swing In Another Volatile, Illiquid Session After a rollercoaster week that ended just barely higher following a late meltup on Friday, overnight volatile US stock futures swung to start the week, with Nasdaq 100 futures leading gains after rallying on Friday, before turning red and threatening to fizzle a global equity rally amid persistent worries over the Federal Reserve’s plan to hike interest rates this year. Emini S&P futures were down 0.5% or 21 points to 4401, after rising as high as 4437 and dropping as low as 4395 in another extremely illiquid session where China being offline for the week due to Lunar New Year did not help; Nasdaq futures were down 0.1% while Dow futures were lower 0.7%. Technology stocks led gains on the Stoxx Europe 600. Meanwhile, the dollar fell and oil rallied. As investors reconcile to a hawkish U.S. central bank coupled with strong earnings, the expensive parts of the U.S. stock market are undergoing a valuation re-rating along with the bond markets.

Paying for growth with profits has always been a benefit to Alphabet, but it makes GOOGL stock look even better now.

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The earnings calendar is jam-packed for a second straight week, with more than 20% of S&P 500 companies set to report. Among them is Google parent Alphabet ( GOOGL , $2,630.45), which will unveil its fourth-quarter earnings report after Tuesday''s close. Similar to other mega-cap stocks , GOOGL has had a rough start to 2022, down around 10% for the year-to-date. Still, Alphabet remains a long-term outperformer on the charts, with shares up about 43% over the past 12 months. Analysts see even bigger long-term gains for GOOGL stock too. The average price target among those following Alphabet that are tracked by S&P Global Market Intelligence is $3,365.86, representing implied upside of almost 28% over the next 12 months or so. SEE MORE The 22 Best Stocks to Buy for 2022 Plus, of the 47 analysts following GOOGL, 31 say it''s a Strong Buy and 15 call it a Buy. This compares to just one who has a Hold rating on the stock, with not a single Sell or Strong Sell to be found. Truist Securities analyst Youssef Squali is one of those with a Buy rating on Alphabet. "GOOGL remains one of our favorite names going into the fourth-quarter earnings season as we believe it will show sustained signs of recovery especially in Search and YouTube, on the back of slightly easier year-over-year comps," he says.

American futures tilted higher cautiously as investors waited for key quarterly earnings scheduled for this week. Some of the top companies expected to publish their results are Amazon, Alphabet, AMD, Pentair, Meta Platforms and Electronic Arts. On Amazon, analysts expect that the companys business did well in the fourth quarter, helped by cloud segment. Analysts [] The post Stock Futures Tilt Upwards ahead of Amazon and Alphabet Earnings appeared first on Action Forex .

Wall Street has so far been underwhelmed with some tech results, though Apple and Microsoft fared well.

The following is a list of earnings slated for release from January 31 to February 4, along with a few previews.

Alphabet''s (GOOG, GOOGL) Google subsidiary will invest up to $1 billion in Indian telecom Bharti Airtel, as the company expands its presence in the country and Bharti Airtel expands