U.S. markets ended the final session of the week in negative territory amid a geopolitically heavy backdrop. In this lackluster session, all three indexes finished the week in the red, despite generally solid quarterly results from major U.S. banks and a second consecutive session of gains for semiconductor stocks. U.S. industrial production rose 0.4% in December. Wall Street is closed this Monday for Martin Luther King Day. The Dow Jones fell 0.17% to 59359 points and the Nasdaq slipped 0.06% to 23515 points.

In a note on Alphabet (-0.85%, at $330.34), HSBC released its forecasts for the fourth quarter. The bank expects $61.2bn in revenue (+14.2%) for Google's parent company, $38.3bn in EBIT and diluted earnings per share of $2.71, up 26% year over year.

Economic data of the day
After a 0.4% sequential increase in November (revised from an initially estimated 0.2% gain), U.S. industrial production rose another 0.4% in December, according to the Federal Reserve.


Stocks to watch today

Johnson&Johnson
 Johnson & Johnson is strengthening its positioning in neuropsychiatry with new clinical results showing the effectiveness of Caplya (lumateperone) in achieving remission in adults suffering from major depressive disorder (MDD).

Tesla
 U.S. road safety regulators granted Tesla an additional five weeks to respond to an investigation into alleged traffic code violations by vehicles using the Full Self-Driving (FSD) system. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) pushed the response deadline back to February 23, at the automaker's request, as it must manually review more than 8,000 records to identify potentially related incidents.