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U.S. stock futures rose on Thursday following Wednesday's decline. Futures of major benchmark indices were higher after the strong January jobs report.

The January employment report revealed that the U.S. economy added 130,000 jobs in January, surpassing economists’ expectations of 70,000 jobs. This was also a huge improvement over December, when 48,000 jobs were added. However, the jobs report also included sweeping benchmark revisions that erased roughly 898,000 jobs from payroll estimates from April 2024 through March 2025.

On Wednesday, the Dow Jones index declined, slipping after a record-high close on Tuesday.

Meanwhile, the 10-year Treasury bond yield stood at 4.175%, and the two-year bond yield was 3.502%. The CME Group’s FedWatch tool‘s projections show markets pricing a 94.1% likelihood of the Federal Reserve leaving the current interest rates unchanged in March.

The SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE:SPY) and Invesco QQQ Trust ETF (NASDAQ:QQQ), which track the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100, respectively, were higher in premarket on Thursday. The SPY was up 0.35% at $694.34, while the QQQ declined 0.27% to $614.76.

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00:08all right futures green across the board here ahead of thursday's open mildly green but green
00:14nonetheless s&p futures up 0.24 dow futures up 0.17 and the nasdaq up 0.22 we'll see
00:23if we can
00:23hold these gains into the open see what direction we go u.s stock futures rose on thursday following
00:30wednesday's decline futures of major benchmark indices were higher after the strong january jobs
00:36report the january employment report revealed that the u.s economy added 130 000 jobs in january
00:42surpassing economists expectations of 70 000 jobs this was also a huge improvement over december
00:48where 48 000 jobs were added however the jobs report also included sweeping benchmark revisions
00:54that erased roughly 898 000 jobs from payroll estimates from april of 2024 through march
01:00of 2025 on wednesday the dow jones index declined slipping after the record high close that it put
01:08in on tuesday meanwhile the 10-year treasury bond yielded 4.175 percent and the two-year bond yield
01:14was at 3.502 percent the cme's fed the cme group's fed watch tool projections show the markets are
01:21pricing in a 94.1 likelihood of the federal reserve leaving the current interest rates unchanged in march
01:27remember the last couple of days that percentage which initially started at like 95 had been slipping
01:33i told you that despite the slippage there still looks like we're on pace for a pause here and i
01:39would
01:40be shocked uh if we got anything other than that now it looks like the cme's fed watch tool is
01:46agreeing
01:46with that sentiment i have several stocks in focus here for you today the first one's going to be a
01:51big one that's pretty much in focus all the time okay stop freaking out here how about that uh first
01:58one here is micron ticker is going to be mu it jumped 3.33 percent in pre-market trading continuing
02:05to gain following a surge of nearly 10 percent on wednesday yesterday after morgan stanley raised its
02:10price target to 450 implying an upside of around 10 percent from the stock's closing price on wednesday
02:17um worth noting that micron scores in the 99th percentile for momentum and the 97th percentile for
02:24growth so we talked with tim melvin about growth and and momentum together micron uh at the top of that
02:31list the next stock on our list here is going to be novo cure the ticker here is nvcr share
02:38soared
02:38nearly 33 percent in thursday's pre-market after the u.s food and drug administration approved opium
02:44packs for the treatment of adult patients with locally advanced pancreatic cancer the next stock on our list
02:52is going to be fastly the ticker here is fsly shares were up nearly 43 percent in thursday's pre-market
02:59session after the company reported a fourth quarter earnings uh result that beat expectations
03:04vastly reported earnings per share of 12 cents on revenue of 172.61 million that beat expectations
03:13of a three cent loss and revenue of 161 million as far as their guide goes they see q1 adjusted
03:19eps of
03:20seven to ten cents that's versus one cent estimate they also see sales of 168 to 174 million and that
03:27was
03:27versus an estimate of 159.62 million and then as far as full year 26 they see an eps of
03:3423 to 29 cents
03:35that was versus a 14 cent estimate and they see sales of 700 to 720 million versus an estimate of
03:42667
03:43million so really the story here yes they beat but story here is that the guide was really good and
03:49that's what's driving fastly higher here fastly uh has been really really beaten down so to cam's point
03:55earlier here stocks that are beaten down often make these moves when some good news is present
04:01the next stock on our list is going to be mcdonald's this is ticker mcd they reported stronger than
04:06expected q4 earnings and sales driven by its value offering uh and promotions mcdonald's ceo chris
04:13kempzinski stated that the company has improved traffic and its value and affordability scores by
04:18listening to customer feedback more on that in a little bit the final stock on our list is a show
04:24favorite this is app lovin ticker app that reported better than expected q4 results with an eps of 324
04:31on revenue of 1.66 billion wall street estimated an eps of 293 on revenue of 1.61 billion however
04:39app
04:39lovin shares fell more than four percent in thursday's pre-market session they did see q1 sales of
04:451.745 to 1.77 billion and that was first an estimate of 1.69 so
04:51uh looks like app lovin pulling back even with a good report
04:54you
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