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Small companies today face a problem almost as unknown as some of the firms themselves—the exchanges designed to take them public often keep them in the shadows.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average tacked on over 17 points or 0.05% while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite slipped 0.32% and 1.26%, respectively after touching fresh record highs early on in the session.

Futures on the S&P 500 were up 0.3% and futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 0.4%

FOX Business takes a look at the upcoming events that are likely to move financial markets in the coming days.

The Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency tapped contractors Raytheon, Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin to develop a defense system capable of intercepting hypersonic missiles, officials said on Friday.

Investors are taking in more retail earnings on the final day of trading ahead of a short holiday week.

Investors continue to digest another round of retail earnings.

Starbucks Corp's newest cafe lacks one element most customers are used to seeing: cashiers.

Amazon.com Inc is considering dropping Visa as partner on its U.S. co-branded credit card after earlier confirming it would stop accepting Visa credit cards in the United Kingdom as a dispute over payments intensified.

California's highest court rejected on Wednesday a challenge by Monsanto Co.'s to $86.2 million in damages to a couple who developed cancer after spraying the company's Roundup weed-killer in their yards for three decades.

U.S. stocks slid Wednesday as investors fretted over inflation as they awaited word on President Biden's pick to head the Federal Reserve.

More big money investors say inflation is "transitory."

Shares of Biogen slipped nearly 4% in pre-market trading Wednesday after the biotech company's new Alzheimer's drug Aduhelm (aducanumab) received a "negative trend vote" from the European Medicine Agency's Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP).

Boeing has announced its first major sale at the Dubai Air Show.

Tesla founder Elon Musk noted Tuesday the electric car maker would contribute a massive sum in federal tax revenue in the coming years amid an ongoing dispute over a Democrat-led push to increase taxes on the wealthiest Americans.

Rep. Kim Schrier, D-Wash., was more than two months late in disclosing the purchase of half a million dollars worth of stock in Apple.

U.S. stocks rallied to just shy of record highs Tuesday as traders celebrated a jump in retail sales a day after President Biden signed the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill.

Activision Blizzard is pushing back against reporting by the Wall Street Journal that its chief executive officer Bobby Kotick has known about sexual misconduct allegations at the video game publishing giant for years.

More shoppers visited stores than they did in the same period last year, with traffic up 5.7% and spending per trip up 3.3%, a sign that shopping habits may be normalizing after last year's extreme shifts in buying behavior.

U.S. stock futures were little changed ahead of retail sales data and earnings updates from retailers Walmart and Home Depot.