-- Consumer stocks were mixed premarket Wednesday, with the State Street Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLP) retreating 0.4% and the State Street Consumer Discretionary Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLY) advancing 1.4%.
Amazon (AMZN) shares were up more than 1% a day after The Information reported the company-backed Anthropic will pay Alphabet's (GOOG, GOOGL) Google Cloud about $200 billion over five years for computing capacity and processors.
Diageo (DEO) stock was up over 5% after the company reported higher fiscal Q3 sales.
Kraft Heinz (KHC) shares were up more than 2% after the company posted higher-than-expected fiscal Q1 adjusted earnings and net sales.