Futures linked to the S&P 500 rose on Tuesday, boosted by Palantir Technologies and a bounce in gold and silver, after U.S. equities posted a strong start to the new trading month. S&P 500 futures added 0.2%, while Nasdaq 100 futures were little changed. Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 130 points, or 0.5%. Shares of Palantir jumped 11% after the defense tech company gave strong fourth-quarter financial results and upbeat guidance. Additionally, robotics play Teradyne surged 22% after posting a solid outlook for the first quarter, calling for revenue that surpassed expectations. Elsewhere in tech, shares of Alphabet were more than 1% higher ahead of its earnings results Wednesday. Silver and gold prices rebounded Tuesday after settling lower on Monday, with spot gold up 5% and spot silver up 9% on the day. Alongside the two metals coming under pressure in the prior day, bitcoin dropped to its lowest level since April, signaling investors’ decreasing appetite for risk. Gold and silver had also sold off hard on Friday. Major stock averages rose across the board in the regular session. The 30-stock Dow jumped about 515 points, or 1.05%. The S&P 500 advanced 0.5%, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite gained almost 0.6%. Hot artificial intelligence infrastructure stocks Sandisk, Western Digital and Seagate all ended the session higher. However, Nvidia fell nearly 3% after The Wall Street Journal reported late last week that the chip company’s plans to invest in OpenAI have stalled. Investors this week are digesting more than 100 S&P 500 companies reporting earnings results. In addition to Alphabet, fellow “Magnificent Seven” giant Amazon is slated to report later this week. Tech earnings will be in focus as investors look for signs of AI-driven efficiency and profit growth, particularly after the market’s unforgiving reaction to Microsoft’s results last week. “The themes that have been driving risk assets higher — the Federal Reserve obviously not tightening rates, probably reducing rates a little bit more this year, the strong economy and profit backdrop and the tariff story not getting worse … you still have those tailwinds in place,” Solus Alternative Asset Management strategist Dan Greenhaus said Monday on CNBC’s “Closing Bell.” “The AI story is still driving markets.” “I think when you put all of that together, you might get a little more volatile in February, but what’s driving the market is still there,” Greenhaus added. Treasury yields held steady on Tuesday as investors continued to digest recent economic data that offered a positive sign about the state of the U.S. economy. The 10-year Treasury yield was nearly 2 basis points higher at 4.295%. The 2-year Treasury yield was about 1 basis point higher at 3.58%, while the 30-year Treasury yield rose more than a basis point to 4.924%. Asia-Pacific markets rose Tuesday with several benchmarks in the region soaring, tracking gains on Wall Street. South Korea’s Kospi led gains in the region, jumping nearly 7% to close at 5,288.08, briefly triggering a temporarily halt, or sidecar, in purchase orders. The small-cap Kosdaq rose 4.19% to close at 1,144.33. India’s Nifty 50 rose nearly 5% at the open after U.S. President Donald Trump said Washington and New Delhi had struck a trade deal and would immediately begin cutting tariffs on each other’s goods. The Nifty 50 was last up 2.73%, while the BSE Sensex rose 2.66%. Japan’s Nikkei 225 rose more than 3.92% to a record high, closing at 54,720.66, while the Topix added 3.1% to end the trading day at 3,645.84. Hong Kong Hang Seng Index advanced 0.22% to 26,834.77, while the mainland’s CSI 300 was up 1.18%, ending at 4,660.11. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 climbed 0.89% to 8,857.1. Australia’s central bank raised its policy rate by 25 basis points to 3.85% on Tuesday, marking the Reserve Bank of Australia’s first rate hike since November 2023 as inflation stays elevated. Oil ⁠prices were little changed Tuesday as market participants weighed the possibility of a de-escalation in U.S.-Iran tensions, ‍while a firmer dollar placed ‍greater downside pressure on ‍prices. Brent crude futures fell 3 cents to $66.27 per barrel. U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude was at $62.17 per barrel, up 3 cents. Oil prices fell more than 4% on ‌Monday ‌after U.S. President Donald Trump said Iran was “seriously talking” with ​Washington, signaling a de-escalation of tensions with the OPEC member. Gold and silver prices rebounded on Tuesday after suffering a historic sell-off, pulling global stocks and funds linked to the metals higher. Spot gold was last up about 5.5% to $4,913.97 per ounce. Gold futures in New York gained more than 6%, hovering at around $4,935.40 as of 7:44 a.m. ET. Spot silver rose over 9% to settle at around $86.89 per ounce. Silver futures in New York were up 12.5% at $86.57.