5 things to know before the stock market opens Wednesday

Reopening trades came under pressure Tuesday after the FDA recommended a pause in Johnson & Johnson’s one-shot Covid vaccine after reported rare cases of blood clotting.

The flood of earnings from the nation’s biggest banks began Wednesday with Dow stocks JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs.

That would value the cryptocurrency exchange at about $65 billion, nearly eight times its $8 billion valuation in its last private fundraising round in 2018.

The CDC is set to convene a meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices on Wednesday to further review the six cases of rare but severe blood-clotting issues that lead federal regulators to recommend pausing J&J’s Covid vaccine.

Moderna, citing updated trial data, said its two-shot Covid-19 vaccine was more than 90% effective at protecting against Covid and more than 95% effective against severe disease up to six months after the second dose.

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