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[ad_1] Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., March 13, 2024.  Brendan McDermid | Reuters U.S. stock futures inched higher on Wednesday night as traders looked ahead to another inflation reading. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures rose 32 points, or less than 0.1%. S&P 500 futures advanced 0.1%, and Nasdaq 100 futures climbed 0.2%. In after-hours action, trading platform Robinhood popped 10% after the company reported a 16% increase in assets under custody in February from the prior month. Troubled electric vehicle startup Fisker tumbled 46% after The Wall Street Journal reported that the company has hired restructuring advisors to prepare for a potential bankruptcy filing. These moves come after the major stock indexes ended Wednesday's session with mixed activity. A sharp decline in the technology sector — particularly as Nvidia dropped 1.1% — pulled the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite lower, with the two b...

[ad_1] Every weekday the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer holds a "Morning Meeting" livestream at 10:20 a.m. ET. Here's a recap of Friday's key moments. 1. Wall Street saw some volatility Friday around Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell's morning speech from the central bank conference in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Powell said inflation is still "too high" and the Fed is "prepared to raise rates further" if economic data dictates it. No interest rate hike is expected at next month's Fed meeting, according to the CME FedWatch tool . There's a split in the market on whether we'll see one more rate hike before year-end. Currently, no action is favored. 2. The overall market remains oversold, according to Jim Cramer's trusted S & P Oscillator , but not as oversold as it was earlier in the week. We've been making strategic buys all week long. One day after a blowout quarter, we boosted on Thursday our Nvidia (NVDA) pr...

[ad_1] Artificial intelligence is all the rage right now. And according to tech investor Mark Hawtin, there's a smart way to jump on the trend: playing the data theme. AI has taken Wall Street by storm since since ChatGPT was launched and went viral — causing a surge in interest among investors in what stocks could benefit from the trend. Stocks such as tech giant Microsoft, which backed ChatGPT, Alphabet — which developed a chatbot — as well as semiconductor firms like Nvidia have come up as obvious plays on AI. ChatGPT was created by San Francisco-based OpenAI , a private company backed by Microsoft . It can answer questions, write essays and more. But Hawtin, investment director at Zurich-based GAM Investments, has identified data as another way to get into the game. "If we make the assumption that data is the new oil from a corporate perspective, it's what is absolutely required, it's the edge in business — then that data has to be stored," he told CNBC P...

[ad_1] Amazon CEO Andy Jassy doesn't believe the retail and cloud computing giant should be counted out of the artificial intelligence race just yet. In a wide-ranging interview with CNBC, Jassy challenged the notion that Amazon has fallen behind in AI as Microsoft and Google add chatbots to consumer products like their search engines, likening it to the "hype cycle" before the "substance cycle." "I think most people are focused on the applications, you know, things like ChatGPT brought everybody's awareness up, but I think of generative AI as having three macro layers," Jassy told Jon Fortt in an interview that aired on "Closing Bell Overtime" late Thursday. "I think they're all really big and important." Jassy has said Amazon intends to invest in AI across the company, and that AI programs have the potential to improve "virtually every customer experience." But he specifically pointed to Amazon Web Servi...