Wake Up Wall Street: Dow Jones Secures Eighth Straight Day of Gains

Here are 5 things you must know before the market opens Wednesday.

Author:: Edward Hardy
Publish date:: Feb 22, 2017 7:32 AM EST

This is what you must know before the bell:

1. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.58% on Tuesday to close at 20,743, capping off its eighth straight day of gains following a better-than-expected quarter from Walmart (WMT) - Get Report .

2. Luxury homebuilder Toll Brothers (TOL) - Get Report posted fiscal first-quarter earnings of 42 cents a share, topping analysts' forecasts of 35 cents.

3. Shares of Bristol-Myers (BMY) - Get Report were rising close to 1% in premarket trading Wednesday after billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn took a stake in the drug giant.

4. Facebook (FB) - Get Report is in talks with Major League Baseball to live stream one game a week during the upcoming season.

5. Oil giant Saudi Aramco asked JPMorgan Chase (JPM) - Get Report and Morgan Stanley (MS) - Get Report to assist with its upcoming initial public offering and could call on another bank with access to Chinese investors.