# Financial Market Preview - Monday 4-May Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/factset-u-s-daily-market-preview-128793/financial-market-preview-monday-4-may Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/factset-u-s-daily-market-preview-128793/financial-market-preview-monday-4-may.md Podcast: [FactSet U.S. Daily Market Preview](https://stenobird.com/podcast/factset-u-s-daily-market-preview-128793) Published: 2026-05-04T09:10:00+00:00 Episode link: https://www.factset.com/podcasts Audio file: https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/789aa8f4-2d3c-430c-a06b-08f3fb3c0041.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/factset-u-s-daily-market-preview-128793/episodes/financial-market-preview-monday-4-may Duration seconds: 332 ## Resource US equity futures are slightly higher with S&P up. Comes after S&P and Nasdaq both recorded fifth straight weekly gains, ending at fresh closing highs on Friday. Bonds mixed. US10Y is little changed while bund up 2 bps to 3%. Crude is lower with WTI near $100/bbl and Brent near $107. Gold and silver are weakening. Bitcoin is gaining near one-week high. Peak week of Q1 earnings season put the focus on a very favorable corporate profit backdrop. Massive AI compute and related infrastructure demand dominated the narrative after providing a big tailwind for the market in recent weeks with growth and momentum factors meaningful outperformers. Also we see some renewed focus on the US-Iran stalemate, with reports that Tehran has forwarded a new peace proposal, which helped ease another big week of crude gains though Trump said he's "not satisfied". Companies mentioned: AMAT, EBAY, TTAM ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/factset-u-s-daily-market-preview-128793/episodes/financial-market-preview-monday-4-may/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/factset-u-s-daily-market-preview-128793/financial-market-preview-monday-4-may.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.