The major indexes rose toward record highs Thursday. Apple stock flashed a buy signal late on earnings while Deckers, Atlassian diverged.

Dow Jones futures edged lower early Thursday, while S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq futures rose modestly. Tesla, Meta Platforms, Microsoft headlined a huge slate of Wednesday night earnings, with ServiceNow and IBM also key.

Tesla rose on robotaxi bets despite an earnings miss. Microsoft and ServiceNow tumbled while Meta rose. (Bloomberg) -- Norway’s sovereign wealth fund was underweight on US tech stocks last year, a move that hit 2024 returns but may have helped it weather recent turmoil caused by the challenge posed by Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek.

Wall Street's main indexes rose on Thursday, driven by post-earnings advances in Meta and Tesla, although Microsoft's weak cloud forecast and downbeat results from Cigna dampened investor enthusiasm. Microsoft MSFT.O dropped 4.7% after forecasting disappointing growth in its cloud computing business.

Meta Platforms and most other U.S. stocks are rising Thursday following a rush of profit reports from some of the country’s most influential companies, but drops for Nvidia and Microsoft are keeping the market in check.

U.S. stocks slipped after the Federal Reserve held its main interest rate steady and broke a run of cuts that began in September