Caterpillar, Merck rise premarket; Pfizer, JetBlue and ZoomInfo fall

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Investing.com — U.S. futures edged lower Tuesday, with investors digesting more corporate earnings as well as key job openings data.

Here are some of the biggest premarket U.S. stock movers today:

Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) stock fell 0.4% after the Financial Times reported that the tech giant is preparing to release new artificial intelligence-powered chatbots that have different personalities, in an attempt to boost user engagement.

Caterpillar (NYSE:CAT) stock rose 1.6% after the construction equipment maker reported a rise in quarterly profit, as higher infrastructure spending in regions such as North America drove demand for its products.

Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) stock fell 1% after the drugmaker beat earnings estimates but fell short of Wall Street estimates for quarterly revenue, hit by declining sales of its COVID-19 products.

Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) stock fell 0.3% after the online retail giant announced plans to invest about $7.2 billion through 2037 in Israel, and launched its Amazon Web Services data centers in the country.

Merck (NYSE:MRK) stock rose 1.7% after the drugmaker posted a narrower-than-expected second-quarter loss and raised its full-year profit forecast on the strength of its two top-selling products, cancer immunotherapy Keytruda and human papillomavirus vaccine Gardasil.

JetBlue (NASDAQ:JBLU) stock fell 5% after the low-cost carrier cut its full-year profit forecast, citing a hit from the termination of its revenue-sharing deal with American Airlines (NASDAQ:AAL).

BP (NYSE:BP) ADRs rose 1.1% after the oil major raised its dividend and announced a share buyback despite an earnings drop.

HSBC (NYSE:HSBC) ADRs rose 0.8% after Europe’s largest bank announced a $2 billion buyback as it reported higher