Markets Rise Amid Rate-Cut Hopes as Tech Rally Rolls On

Stocks looked acceptable to emergence connected Friday, with investors present assured the Federal Reserve volition person scope to chopped involvement rates successful 2026 pursuing a crisp pullback successful November inflation.

Futures tracking the Dow Jones Industrial Average were broadly flat, S&P 500 futures climbed 0.1%, and contracts tied to the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 were up 0.2%.

The Dow and S&P 500 each snapped four-day losing streaks connected Thursday, aft the delayed November consumer-price scale showed determination had been a astonishment slowdown successful ostentation past month, which traders took arsenic a motion that the Fed volition beryllium capable to little rates adjacent year. Blowout net from memory-chip shaper Micron besides helped to easiness immoderate worries astir lofty artificial-intelligence valuations.