Stock futures are little changed as traders await Fed decision, Big Tech earnings: Live updates

U.S. equity futures were little changed on Tuesday evening as investors await earnings reports from megacap technology companies and a rate policy decision from the Federal Reserve due Wednesday. In Asia, Japan's Nikkei 225 added over 0.7% while the Topix rose 0.3%. South Korea's Kospi gained over 2% at open, while the small-cap Kosdaq rose 1.8%. Australia's benchmark S&P/ASX 200 was 0.8% higher. In Tuesday's regular U.S. trading, the major averages ended the session higher . Chip stocks rose again, this time powered by an announcement from Broadcom that a group of banks would provide $63 billion in financing to buy the company's chips and networking solutions to be leased to Anthropic, the company behind Claude.