The S&P 500 added 0.4% on Thursday, Jan. 30, as a report showed consumer spending continued to buoy economic growth.

The rest of the stock market could finally catch up to the Magnificent Seven this year—and it has nothing to do with DeepSeek. The gap in earnings growth between the Magnificent Seven and the rest of the benchmark index should compress from roughly 8 percent to less than 5 percent by the end of 2025,

Stocks took a leg up after Trump said Thursday in a virtual address to the World Economic Forum that he would “demand that interest rates drop immediately.”

S&P 500 futures are near flat Thursday night as investors analyzed earnings reports from Apple and other well-known companies ahead of the release of a closely followed inflation report. Futures tied to the broad index ticked higher by 0.1%, while Nasdaq 100 futures added 0.3%. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures added 53 points, or 0.1%.

Investors believe DeepSeek’s AI debut will not impact the Magnificent Seven companies, with 88% of respondents expecting minimal effects on the S&P 500. The survey highlights President Trump’s policies as a primary driver of market volatility this year,

The S&P 500 ( ^GSPC) jumped over 0.5% to secure its first all-time closing high of 2025. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ( ^DJI) popped around 0.9%, while the Nasdaq Composite ( ^IXIC) recovered from earlier session losses to finish the day up about 0.2%.

So-called Big Tech stocks with outsized weightings in the S&P 500 were rising sharply Wednesday, with gains led by Nvidia Corp. The Roundhill Magnificent Seven ETF, whose portfolio equally weights seven Big Tech stocks — Nvidia,

U.S. stock futures moved marginally higher on Thursday following the latest flurry of U.S. economic reports. Investors received the first reading on Q4 GDP. The data showed the U.S. economy expanded at a pace of 2.

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A development in the field of artificial intelligence that staggered asset prices could help set the stage for broader stock strength beyond the narrow group of technology shares that has propelled the market higher.

Nasdaq posted its biggest one-day percentage drop since Dec. 18 on Monday as a low-cost Chinese artificial intelligence model prompted a steep selloff in U.S. chipmakers.

News from China upset U.S. markets Monday and disrupted the frenzy that had built up around artificial intelligence. A company called DeepSeek said it had developed a large language model that can