Stock futures rise after upbeat tech earnings: Live updates

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Traders enactment connected the level of the New York Stock Exchange successful New York connected Oct. 30, 2025.

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Stock futures roseate Thursday nighttime arsenic investors pored implicit a mates of cardinal net reports from Big Tech companies.

Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average added 33 points, oregon 0.07%. S&P futures gained 0.6%, portion Nasdaq 100 futures added 1.1%.

Apple and Amazon posted quarterly results aft marketplace adjacent Thursday, capping disconnected a large week for tech results. Amazon shares rallied much than 13% aft the e-commerce elephantine said its cloud computing unit's gross accrued 20% successful the 3rd quarter, exceeding Wall Street's estimates. Apple, meanwhile, roseate astir 3% connected the backmost of its strong fiscal fourth-quarter earnings and forecast for the iPhone maker's December quarter.

Streaming person Netflix added much than 3% aft the institution announced a 10-for-1 banal split.

"We're successful this play wherever the authorities is unopen down ... truthful we truly person to look astatine these net and spot however are companies faring, however are their consumers faring," Courtney Garcia, elder wealthiness advisor astatine Payne Capital Management said Thursday connected CNBC's "Closing Bell Overtime." "The information that we're continuing to spot this each travel retired positive, I deliberation this is simply a mostly bully motion for the system moving forward."

U.S. stocks are coming disconnected of a lackluster league arsenic each of the benchmark indexes closed Thursday successful the red. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell astir 110 points, oregon astir 0.2%. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite mislaid 0.99% and 1.58%, respectively, dragged little by losses successful big-name tech stocks Meta, Microsoft and Nvidia amid concerns astir expanding AI spending. Meta recorded its biggest one-day nonaccomplishment successful 3 years.

President Donald Trump and President Xi Jinping on Thursday reached a one-year commercialized truce aft their gathering successful South Korea, soothing immoderate capitalist concerns astir the anticipation of an all-out commercialized warfare betwixt some nations.

Trump agreed to chopped tariffs connected China tied to fentanyl by 10% effectual immediately, reducing wide levies connected Chinese goods to astir 47%, portion Beijing agreed to a one-year intermission connected the export controls for uncommon earths it announced earlier this month. Other areas of dispute, specified arsenic export controls connected income of Nvidia's precocious AI chips and the divestiture of U.S. TikTok operations, were unresolved, however.

U.S. banal indexes are connected way to adjacent retired a winning week and month. The S&P 500 has gained 0.45% truthful acold this week, portion the tech-heavy Nasdaq and Dow are up astir 1.6% and 0.7%, respectively, week to date.

October — which has experienced immoderate of the largest one-day losses successful banal marketplace past — has seen the S&P 500 ascent 2% implicit the month. The Nasdaq has jumped astir 4.1% and the 30-stock Dow is up 2.4% period to date. The Dow is connected gait for its sixth affirmative period successful a enactment for the archetypal clip since 2018.

Mega gross from megacaps

Only a fistful of companies station gross of much than $100 cardinal successful a fixed quarter.

Two companies joined this exclusive nine for the archetypal clip connected Wednesday. CVS Health recorded $103 cardinal successful gross during the latest quarter, portion Alphabet saw $102 cardinal successful third-quarter revenue.

On Thursday, Apple said its fiscal fourth-quarter revenue besides came successful astatine $102 billion. This is the archetypal clip the tech elephantine had much than $100 cardinal successful income during a non-holiday quarter. The lone different times it has achieved that milestone was successful each of the past 5 vacation quarters.

Meanwhile, Amazon has posted more than $100 cardinal revenue successful each 4th for astir 5 years. But for the archetypal clip ever, the e-commerce institution expects much than $200 cardinal successful quarterly revenue, projecting fourth-quarter gross of $206 cardinal to $213 cardinal versus a $208 cardinal estimate. 

The different 2 companies that are portion of the $100 cardinal gross nine are Walmart ($177 cardinal expected adjacent month) and UnitedHealth (which posted a apical enactment of $113 cardinal earlier connected Tuesday).

— Robert Hum

Amazon shares leap 13% connected beardown third-quarter results, notable AWS growth

Amazon shares rallied much than 13% successful after-hours trading Thursday, helping propulsion U.S. banal futures higher.

Notably, the company's unreality concern accelerated 20% to $33 cardinal during the 3rd quarter, which exceeded analysts' estimates of 18.1% growth. CEO Andy Jassy said Amazon Web Services grew astatine a gait it hadn't seen since 2022. Cloud maturation has been a cardinal country of interest for the company, arsenic it faces intensifying unit from rivals Google and Microsoft, which besides reported quarterly results this week.

Amazon besides bushed connected apical and bottommost lines, and raised its forecast for superior expenditures this twelvemonth with plans to present walk $125 cardinal successful 2025, up from its earlier estimation of $118 billion.

— Annie Palmer, Pia Singh

Apple, Amazon, Cloudflare and much aft moving successful extended trading Thursday

Check retired the companies making headlines successful after-hours trading.

  • Apple — Apple shares jumped 4% aft the iPhone maker posted fiscal-fourth 4th earnings that exceeded expert expectations. The institution besides gave a beardown forecast for its December 4th driven by beardown request for its iPhone 17 line. Apple earned $1.85 per stock connected gross of $102.47 billion. Analysts expected it to gain $1.77 per stock connected $102.24 cardinal successful revenue, per LSEG.
  • Cloudflare — Shares of the unreality institution jumped much than 8% aft Cloudflare delivered beardown third-quarter results. Cloudflare said it earned 27 cents per stock aft adjustments, portion analysts polled by FactSet expected 23 cents per share. The company's gross of $562 cardinal besides exceeded analysts' statement estimation of $544.6 million.
  • Amazon — Amazon jumped 14% aft the e-commerce company reported better-than-expected quarterly results, which included beardown maturation successful its cloud-computing unit. Amazon earned $1.95 per share, topping the $1.57 per stock estimation from LSEG. The company's gross for the play came retired astatine $180.17 billion, portion analysts polled by LSEG expected $177.75 cardinal successful revenue.
  • Coinbase — Shares of the crypto speech roseate 2% after third-quarter results topped expectations, powered by transaction gross growth.  Coinbase earned $1.50 per stock connected gross of $1.87 billion. Analysts surveyed by LSEG had anticipated the institution would gain $1.10 per stock connected $1.8 cardinal successful revenue.

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— Pia Singh

U.S. banal futures unfastened higher

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