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Stock Market Today: Dow, Nasdaq Futures Fall As Trump Rejects 'Totally Unacceptable' Iran Peace Proposal

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U.S. stock futures fell on Monday after Friday’s higher close. This followed President Donald Trump‘s rejection of Iran’s response to a U.S.-backed peace proposal.

Trump took to Truth Social and wrote, “I have just read the response … I don’t like it — TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE!”

On the economic front, investors will be looking out for the crucial consumer price and producer price indexes’ reports this week. Companies like Cisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO), Alibaba Group Holding ADR (NYSE:BABA), Applied Materials Inc. (NASDAQ:AMAT), and Hims & Hers Health Inc. (NASDAQ:HIMS) will report earnings this week.

Meanwhile, the 10-year Treasury bond yielded 4.38%, and the two-year bond was at 3.92%. The CME Group's FedWatch tool‘s projections show markets pricing a 93.6% likelihood of the Federal Reserve leaving the current interest rates unchanged during June’s meeting.

The SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE: SPY) and Invesco QQQ Trust ETF (NASDAQ: QQQ), which track the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100, respectively, were lower in premarket on Monday. The SPY was down 0.16% at $736.47, while the QQQ declined 0.17% to $709.85.