Stock futures inch higher after tech-driven sell-off: Live updates

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Traders enactment connected the level of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) connected the archetypal time of trading of the caller twelvemonth connected January 02, 2025 successful New York City. 

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U.S. banal futures ticked higher aboriginal Wednesday. The enactment comes aft a crisp diminution successful Big Tech stocks and renewed fears implicit the way of complaint cuts spurred a sell-off connected Wall Street.

S&P 500 futures roseate 0.23%, portion Nasdaq 100 futures gained 0.22%. Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average precocious 81 points, oregon astir 0.19%.

Stocks were nether unit during Tuesday's regular session, arsenic each 3 large averages finished solidly successful the reddish connected the heels of caller information connected the authorities of the U.S. services industry. For December, the Institute for Supply Management's services scale showed an acceleration of enactment successful the space.

That said, the ISM speechmaking besides showed an summation successful prices connected the month, fanning concerns astir stubborn ostentation and raising questions astir this year's trajectory of involvement complaint cuts from the Federal Reserve. According to the CME's FedWatch tool, fed funds futures trading information bespeak a 95% accidental of nary reductions astatine the cardinal bank's gathering this month.

On Tuesday, the Nasdaq Composite led the battalion successful losses, dropping astir 2%. The wide marketplace S&P 500 and blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average, which slid much than 1% and astir 0.4%, respectively.

Nvidia led the losses successful tech successful the session, falling much than 6%. Tesla and Meta Platforms tumbled 4% and astir 2%, respectively.

The December ISM information besides spurred a spike successful Treasury yields Tuesday, sending the complaint connected the benchmark 10-year note to an intraday precocious of 4.699%. That marks its highest level since April.

Ayako Yoshioka, a portfolio consulting manager astatine Wealth Enhancement Group, thinks the affirmative communicative for the marketplace is inactive intact for 2025, adjacent if the way to "decent" returns is much volatile, arsenic she expects.

"We person truthful galore antithetic crosscurrents, whether it's connected the maturation side, the ostentation side, argumentation changes," Yoshioka said Tuesday connected CNBC's "Closing Bell." "Those are going to astir apt rattle markets astatine times, but I deliberation they're going to beryllium wide conscionable buying opportunities successful the agelong term."

Investors are present looking up to the ADP backstage payrolls study and jobless claims data. Both are owed Wednesday morning. Minutes from the Fed's December gathering are slated for merchandise astatine 2 p.m. ET.

See the stocks making moves aft the bell

Some stocks are making large moves successful extended trading:

  • Cal-Maine Foods – Shares gained 4% aft the ovum accumulation institution posted its latest quarterly results. For its 2nd 4th of fiscal 2025, Cal-Maine Foods earned $4.47 per stock connected gross of $954.7 million, with the second fig marking an 82% summation compared to the year-ago quarter. The results were not comparable to the Street's estimates owed to bladed coverage.
  • AAR Corp – Shares of the aviation services supplier precocious astir 4% aft the company's fiscal second-quarter results bushed Wall Street's expectations. AAR Corp posted adjusted net of 90 cents per stock connected gross of $686.1 million, much than the 85 cents per stock and $654.2 cardinal that analysts were expecting, according to FactSet.
  • AZZ – The banal moved astir 1% higher pursuing the metal-coatings company's better-than-expected third-quarter results. AZZ posted adjusted net of $1.39 per stock connected gross of $403.7 million. That's supra the $1.26 per stock and $394.3 cardinal successful gross that analysts polled by FactSet had penciled in.

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— Sean Conlon

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