The shares increased Thursday morning while investors reacted to a report of reports on the profits of major companies and major economic indicators.
The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite each increased by about 0.6% half an hour after the opening bell, while the industrial average of Dow Jones nailed on 0.3%. The shares were closed down on Wednesday after the federal reserve decided to leave its interest rate unchanged and said that it was not in a hurry to adjust the policy because inflation remains high.
It was a week of roller coasters for the American stock market because investors were forced to reassess part of their reflection on investments related to AI, after the Chinese startup Deepseek launched a very efficient AI model which has been developed at a fraction of the cost that US American companies spend. The Deepseek News highlighted even more brilliant than usual on Big Tech’s income this week.
Meta platform (META) shares increased more than 4% early Thursday after the company at the end yesterday announced better than expected results as its expenditure in AI increases considerably. Microsoft (MSFT) was dropped by more than 4% despite the results of reporting the results that exceeded analysts’ expectations at the top and bottom, because the income from its intelligent cloud segment appeared. IBM shares (IBM) increased by 12% after the company has shown a sharp increase in its AI generating activities in the fourth quarter.
Tesla (TSLA) shares have increased by around 1%, because the ambitious plans of the manufacturer of electric vehicles for autonomous vehicles and the expectation that vehicle sales will increase compensated results in the fourth quarter in 2025 which lacked estimates of Wall Street.
Other stocks of high capitalization technologies have been mixed. The investor AI NVIDIA (NVDA) and Amazon (AMZN) were slightly lower, while Apple (AAPP) and Alphabet (Googl) gained ground. Apple should report quarterly results after today’s fence bell.
Among the other movers of the post-benefit report, the giant of the delivery of the package parcel service (UPS) fell by 15%, the health insurer Cigna (CI) fell by 10% and the manufacturer of heavy machines Caterpillar ( CAT) fell 5%.
On the front of economic data this morning, the first reading on the economic growth of the United States in the fourth quarter was slightly lower than expectations, as well as the weekly figures for unemployment affirmations, although the figures continue to show the force of the economy. The Fed, following its decision on Wednesday to maintain its influence rate on stable federal funds, that the labor market is on a solid basis while inflation remains “somewhat high”.
The yield on the treasure at 10 years, which is sensitive to the expectations of the interest rate department, was 4.52% during recent negotiations, against 4.56% at the end of yesterday.
Bitcoin was $ 106,000, against an anterior hollow of $ 103,300, while gold contracts increased by more than $ 2,830 to $ 2,830 and term contracts on crude oil WTI advanced 0.5%.
