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U.S. stocks traded higher this morning, with the Nasdaq Composite gaining more than 1% on Friday.

(Editor’s note: The future prices of benchmark tracking ETFs and the headline were updated in the story.)

U.S. stocks traded mixed midway through trading, with the Dow Jones index gaining more than 100 points on Thursday.

U.S. stocks were mixed, with the Dow Jones index gaining around 200 points on Thursday.

U.S. stocks traded mostly lower this morning, with the Nasdaq Composite falling more than 1% on Thursday.

U.S. stock futures were lower this morning, with the Dow futures falling more than 100 points on Thursday.

(Editor’s note: The future prices of benchmark tracking ETFs, the headline, and the lede were updated in the story.)

Major stock indexes traded mixed on Wednesday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average slipping nearly 0.2% to 47,632 and the SP 500 holding steady at 6,890.59, while the Nasdaq gained 0.55% to 23,958.47.The Federal Reserve cut its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points to 3.75%-4.00% and announced it would…

Stocks sold off late Wednesday after Fed Chair Jerome Powell pushed back on expectations for another interest rate cut in December, warning that such a move is "far from a foregone conclusion” as the Federal Open Market Committee remains divided and incoming data remains clouded by shutdown-related gaps.