After a recent move back above its 50-day moving average, Amazon.com AMZN was an early outperformer in the Dow Jones, up 1%. Fellow blue chip JPMorgan gained 1.6% in recent action. On the Nasdaq, downtrodden Intel managed to pull a gain of 6% in recent trades.

Investors parsed fresh economic data and doubled down on bets the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates in December.

Thanksgiving session, with the NASDAQ 100, Dow Jones Industrial Average, and S&P 500 all holding firm near support levels. Short-term pullbacks are viewed as buying opportunities, with December seasonality expected to favor further upside.

Futures were halted, but stock market ETFs pointed higher after the Thanksgiving holiday. ASML and gold plays flashed buy signals.

Stocks closed sharply higher for a second time in as many days this holiday-shortened trading week, although Nvidia and other semiconductor shares fell on a report Meta Platforms may use Google's AI chips in their data centers.

NASDAQ moved higher amid strong demand for tech stocks. Strategy, which was up by 4.3%, was among the biggest gainers in the NASDAQ index today. The stock gained ground as Bitcoin climbed above the $90,000 level.

US stocks rose on Friday as Nasdaq gained 0.4%, S&P 500 climbed 0.3%, and Dow added 124 points. A cooling issue at a Chicago Mercantile Exchange data center briefly halted futures trading but was resolved by 8:30 a.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average remained on track for its fourth straight session of gains, led by a rise in shares of Boeing and Walmart. Boeing shares were up 2.9% at around $187.69 on Wednesday, a

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