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

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.

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.

Futures tracking the tech-heavy Nasdaq and the blue-chip Dow resumed trading on Friday after the world's biggest exchange operator, CME Group, restored its services following an hours-long outage caused by a cooling issue at one of its 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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Major stock indexes closed sharply higher Friday, but nevertheless posted weekly losses on concerns about AI spending and valuations of big tech firms.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average was rallying early afternoon Friday, on pace for its biggest jump since August. The Dow was up around 725 points, or 1.6%, which would be its largest daily percentage gain since Aug.

This ETF is beating the Dow by a better than 5-to-1 margin this year -- and thanks to its AI intersections, the good times could continue in 2026.