Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York on Oct. 30, 2025. <\/p>\n
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Stock futures rose Thursday night as investors pored over a couple of key earnings reports from Big Tech companies.<\/p>\n
Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average<\/a> added 17 points, or 0.05%. S&P futures<\/a> gained 0.5%, while Nasdaq 100 futures<\/a> added 1%.<\/p>\n Apple<\/a> and Amazon<\/a> posted quarterly results after market close Thursday, capping off a big week for tech results. Amazon shares rallied more than 13% after the e-commerce giant said its cloud computing unit’s revenue increased 20%<\/a> in the third quarter, exceeding\u00a0Wall Street’s estimates. Apple, meanwhile, rose about 3% on the back of its strong fiscal fourth-quarter earnings<\/a> and forecast for the iPhone maker’s December quarter.<\/p>\n Streaming leader Netflix added more than 3% after the company announced a 10-for-1 stock split<\/a>.<\/p>\n “We’re in this period where the government is shut down … so we really have to look at these earnings and see how are companies faring, how are their consumers faring,” Courtney Garcia, senior wealth advisor at Payne Capital Management said Thursday on CNBC’s “Closing Bell Overtime.” “The fact that we’re continuing to see this all come out positive, I think this is a generally good sign for the economy moving forward.”<\/p>\n U.S. stocks are coming off of a lackluster session as each of the benchmark indexes closed Thursday in the red. The\u00a0Dow Jones Industrial Average<\/a>\u00a0fell nearly 110 points, or about 0.2%. The S&P 500<\/a> and Nasdaq Composite<\/a> lost 0.99% and 1.58%, respectively, dragged lower by losses in big-name tech stocks Meta<\/a>, Microsoft<\/a> and Nvidia<\/a> amid concerns about increasing AI spending. Meta recorded its biggest one-day loss in three years.<\/p>\n President Donald Trump and President\u00a0Xi Jinping\u00a0on Thursday reached a one-year trade truce<\/a> after their meeting in South Korea, soothing some investor concerns about the possibility of an all-out trade war between both nations.<\/p>\n