After yesterday’s highs: slight increases in Wall Street futures

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The futures on Wall Street are now registering gains of up to 0.3%, against the background of the reports regarding the emerging agreement to extend the ceasefire between the US and Iran.

Trade in Europe is also running on a positive trend. The Dax index is trading close to the base level, the Potsi index is climbing by about 0.2% and the KAC is up by about 0.7%.

Asian stock markets ended their trading day mainly with price increases. The Tokyo Stock Exchange jumped by about 2.5%, the Hong Kong Stock Exchange climbed by about 0.7%, the Shanghai Stock Exchange weakened by about 0.7% and the Seoul Stock Exchange jumped by about 3.5% to a new high.

Last night, the leading indices on Wall Street broke new all-time highs. The Nasdaq climbed about 0.9%, the S&P 500 advanced about 0.6% and the Dow Jones finished with a tiny gain of less than 0.1%.

Technology stocks stood out positively, mainly after a strong profit forecast of Snowflake Revived the enthusiasm around AI trading. The company’s shares jumped about 37% in their best day ever after the cloud-based data platform provider posted rosy forecasts for its fiscal second quarter, as well as declining top and bottom lines in its most recent quarter. The company also signed a plan to spend $6 billion on Amazon Web Services over five years.

At the same time, memory shares, which produce memory chips for computers, servers and end devices, also rose during trading. For example, a share SanDisk recorded increases of about 3.5%. Chip giants also jumped – Qualcomm for example, jumped by about 4%.

stock dark Today it increased by about 0.5%, and in total it registers increases of about 2.4% this week. If it closes the week higher, it will complete a tenth consecutive weekly gain – the first since 2009. Apple’s longest winning streak was in 2004, when it recorded 12 weeks of gains.

stock poor It soared nearly 40% overnight in late trading, after the laptop maker raised its full-year 2026 forecast and narrowly beat both top- and bottom-line analysts’ forecasts. The company presented adjusted earnings per share of $4.86 compared to expectations for $2.94, and revenues of $43.84 billion compared to expectations for $35.43 billion.

The figures reflect annual growth of a dizzying 88% in revenues – the highest figure since the company’s initial public offering in 2018, since the annual growth in revenues has not exceeded 39%.

CNBC reported that the expansion is driven by artificial intelligence, as Dell assembles servers that contain graphics processing units from companies such as Nvidia. Bedel stated that its revenues from artificial intelligence services jumped by 757% compared to the corresponding period last year and reached 16.1 billion dollars. For the full year, Dell now expects AI revenue of $60 billion, up from its previous forecast of $50 billion in February. This figure will reflect an annual growth of 144%.