us stock index futures wobbled wednesday ahead of a report on january retail sales and the minutes of the latest federal reserve meeting investors were also keeping watch on the geopolitical crisis surrounding ukraine after a nato official said they had seen no signs of russian troop withdrawal around that country on tuesday the dow industrials djia surged 42267 points or 12 to close at 3498884 while the sp 500 index spx rose 16 to 447107 the nasdaq composite climbed 25 to 1413907 read with a tiger and jamie dimon jpmorgan enters the metaverse all three benchmarks logged the first win in four sessions on tuesday on hopes russia can be persuaded not to invade ukraine reports that some russian troops had moved back to their bases and reports that moscow was ready to talk with nato and the us drove some relief buying on wall street some optimism faded wednesday after nato secretarygeneral jens stoltenberg told reporters that “we have not seen any withdrawal” of those russian forces “what we see is that they have increased the number of troops and more troops are on their way” he said president joe biden urged moscow to “choose diplomacy” on tuesday warning that a russian move into ukraine was still possible and reports that those russian units had returned home couldn’t be verified us economic data will swing into focus on wednesday with january retail sales expected to rise 21 after a 19 drop in december due at 830 am eastern time import prices for january are due at the same time followed by industrial production business inventories and the national association of home builder’s latest index later in the afternoon investors will get the minutes of the most recent federal reserve meeting “today’s fomc minutes of the jan 26 meeting will be scrutinized for any rhetoric indicating a lean for hiking or not hiking in larger increments than 25 basis points” said strategists at saxo bank in a note to clients “the market has priced in just over 40 basis points of hiking through that march fomc minutes” earnings news will continue to roll in on wednesday with earnings due from shopify inc shop kraft heinz co khc and analog devices inc adi followed by nvidia corp nvda cisco systems inc csco applied materials inc amat tripadvisor inc trip and more after the close earnings preview the arm deal is dead but nvidia is not expected to slow down elsewhere oil prices cl00 were nearing 93 a barrel up about 08 while naturalgas futures ng00 climbed nearly 5 to 4542 per million british thermal units what companies are in focus   roblox corp rblx shares sank 15 after the socialgaming platform reported disappointing quarterly results   stock in upstart holdings inc upst soared 25 after the fintech company blew past earnings expectations and announced buybacks   ericsson ab’s eric uslisted shares slid 9 tracking losses in stockholm after the swedish telecommunications provider said a probe over iraq dealings revealed it may have made payments to islamic state terrorist group   shares of viacomcbs viac fell 9 in premarket trading after the media group reported earnings that fell short of wall street expectations the company announced a name change to paramount global after reporting a record surge in streamingservice business