On the downside, copper futures plunged for a second straight day. Nvidia partner Arm slid nearly 11% in massive trade.

Stocks opened higher Thursday, powered by record highs from four key tech stocks and blowout earnings from Facebook-parent Meta Platforms (META) and Microsoft (MSFT) . Microsoft's market capitalization topped $4 trillion for the first time,

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U.S. stock indexes are drifting on Wednesday as Wall Street waits to hear from the Federal Reservelater in the afternoon about what it will do with interest rates. NEW YORK (AP) — The S&P 500 was edging up by 0.

U.S. stock index futures largely held steady on Wednesday, as investors geared up for key economic data, the Federal Reserve's monetary policy decision and earnings from Wall Street's technology giants.