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Stocks @ Night is a daily newsletter delivered after hours, giving you a first look at tomorrow and last look at today. Sign up for free to receive it directly in your inbox. Here’s what CNBC TV’s producers were watching on Wednesday and what’s on the radar for Thursday’s session. Stocks back on track Following Tuesday’s dip, the S & P 500 and Nasdaq scored new closing highs . AMD has surged 43% over the past three days, on pace for its best weekly performance since 2016, per CNBC’s Nick Wells. Among the “Magnificant Seven,” Nvidia posted a fresh closing…

CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Wednesday identified and reviewed three distinct aspects of the current economy, explaining how he thinks this dynamic is impacting market action.”We have three economies right now,” he said. “Two of those are booming, although one shouldn’t be, and the third one is hurting, badly, and it needs help right now.”He first pointed to the booming segment related to artificial intelligence and the data center, referencing JPMorgan research that suggests AI-related stocks have accounted for 75% of S&P 500 returns, 80% of earnings growth and 90% of capital spending growth since late 2022 following the launch of…

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. NYSES&P 500 futures are up slightly on Wednesday night after the benchmark index rose to all-time highs.Futures tied to the broad index traded rose nearly 0.2%, while the Nasdaq 100 futures added more than 0.2% Dow Jones Industrial Average futures rose 60 points, or 0.1%. With Wednesday’s gain, the S&P 500 notched its eighth winning day of the last nine. The technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite climbed more than 1% to end above the 23,000 mark for the first time ever.The Dow, on the other hand, finished slightly below flat as…

NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors told a judge Wednesday that no harm was done to prospects for a fair trial after two U.S. Justice Department officials reposted potentially inflammatory comments President Donald Trump made about Luigi Mangione after he was charged with assassinating UnitedHealthcare’s CEO.They said in a written submission in Manhattan federal court that the two employees aren’t working on the case and didn’t know that the judge had warned lawyers to be careful what they share publicly. They said they have since been warned.And they said the distance from a trial date that has not yet been…

LEGUNG TIMUR, Indonesia (AP) — In the northeastern tip of Indonesia’s Madura Island, sand blankets front yards and even spills into the interior of homes.Residents of the three coastal communities — Legung Timur, Legung Barat and Dapenda — collectively known as the sand village, believe sand brings comfort and healing.The villages are located in a coastal area on the northeastern side of the Sumenep district in Indonesia’s East Java province.After a day of fishing, residents can be seen spending time outside their homes, covered in sand. Locals say the sand brings families and community closer together. Adnan, one name only,…

Reactions from across the spectrum have poured in online following New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s 7 October statement, which many Palestinians and pro-Palestine advocates say shows him bending the knee to political pressure. Published on the second anniversary of the Hamas-led attack on 7 October, Mamdani began the statement by mourning “the 1,100 Israelis killed and hundreds taken hostage”. He then pivoted to denounce Israel’s military response: “In the aftermath… Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Israeli government launched a genocidal war… A death toll that now far exceeds 67,000; with the Israeli military bombing homes, hospitals, and schools into…

Jordan is keeping “very significant” quantities of arms that the US is using to train Palestinian Authority (PA) security forces, which Israel is refusing to allow back into the occupied West Bank, multiple people briefed on the matter, including a US official, told Middle East Eye. The US and its partners use Jordan to conduct ‘live fire’ exercises for PA security forces, usually for around one week, following six weeks of training in Jericho in the occupied West Bank. The training has accelerated in recent months with the intention to send security forces to Gaza with a focus on “counterterrorism”. The…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department said Wednesday that it has fired a U.S. diplomat over a romantic relationship he admitted having with a Chinese woman alleged to have ties to the Chinese Communist Party.The dismissal is believed to be the first of its kind for violating a ban on such relationships that was introduced late last year under the Biden administration.The Associated Press reported earlier this year that in the waning days of Democrat Joe Biden’s presidency, the State Department imposed a ban on all American government personnel in China, as well as family members and contractors with security…

NEW YORK (AP) — A novel about identity and a missing youth, a history of the overthrow of the Shah of Iran and a picture book celebrating the underappreciated belly button are this year’s winners of the Kirkus Prize, which includes a $50,000 cash award for each of the three categories.Lucas Schaefer’s “The Slip,” which follows a man’s search for a nephew who disappeared years earlier, won for fiction, while the award for nonfiction was given to Scott Anderson’s “King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation.” The winner for young readers’ literature was…

TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney raised the prospect of reviving the contentious Keystone XL pipeline project with U.S. President Donald Trump during his White House visit this week, a government official familiar with the matter said Wednesday.A Canadian company pulled the plug on it four years ago after the Canadian government failed to persuade then-President Joe Biden to reverse his cancellation of its permit on the day he took office. It was to transport crude from the oil sand fields of western Canada to Steele City, Nebraska.Trump previously revived the long-delayed project during his first term after…