Dow Jones futures edged lower overnight, along with S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq futures. Tesla's new Model Y is in focus.The stock market rally saw further gains Thursday. The Dow Jones led and the S&P 500 hit a fresh high.
Stocks closed solidly higher on Thursday for the fourth straight session as investor optimism about the Trump administration continues to run high.
Stocks took a step up after Trump said in a virtual address to the World Economic Forum that he would “demand that interest rates drop immediately.”
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) continued its steady drift into the high end on Thursday, gaining 0.8% and adding around 350 points to the tally as investors broadly tilt into a risk on stance.
The broad based index finished the trading day up over 0.5%, securing its first all-time closing high of 2025. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ( ^DJI) popped around 0.9%, but was unable to secure its own record, while the Nasdaq Composite ( ^IXIC) recovered from earlier losses to close up about 0.2%.
Read about the market's reaction to President Donald Trump's speech in Davos, Switzerland where he called for lower rates and cheaper oil, as well as how corporate earnings were received and other developments on Thursday.
Investors are appraising the likely impact of Trump's orders on stocks on the first trading day after the inauguration.
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Wall Street traded slightly higher during midday Thursday as investors assessed the ongoing earnings season while closely monitoring policy signals from President Donald Trump.
Stocks were jittery on Thursday as uncertainty lingers over President Donald Trump's plans for tariffs, while tech stocks digested recent gains on the White House's artificial-intelligence ambitions.
During his speech in World Economic Forum at Davos, Trump urged companies to manufacture their products in the US and vowed to offer tax relief or else face tariffs. In his speech, Trump also revealed his plan to lower interest rates and ask OPEC to lower oil prices.
"I'll demand that interest rates drop immediately and likewise they should be dropping all over the world," Trump said to business leaders from around the world. The yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury note retreated from its intraday high of 4.664% following Trump's comments but closed at 4.648%, up from 4.599% on Wednesday.