US pre-open: Futures higher following CoreWeave earnings, Nvidia bounce.


Wall Street futures were in the green ahead of the opening bell on Wednesday as neocloud giant CoreWeave traded higher on the back of its solid third-quarter earnings report and shares in chipmaker Nvidia bounced

New York Stock Exchange

Source: Sharecast

As of 1230 GMT, Dow Jones futures were up 0.24%, while S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100 futures had the indices opening 0.92% and 1.95% firmer, respectively.

The Dow closed 157.68 points lower on Tuesday as expectations for a quarter-point rate increase from the Federal Reserve at its next policy meeting rose to roughly 90% after a hotter-than-expected US inflation print increased by 0.4% month-on-month in October.

Cloud infrastructure technology firm CoreWeave surged 16.97% before the open after topping Wall Street expectations with its latest quarterly revenues overnight, fuelled by solid demand for its cloud services. CoreWeave posted revenues of $3.66bn, up from $1.37bn twelve months earlier and ahead of estimates of $3.55bn. It also hiked its full-year revenue forecast to between $13bn and $13.3bn, up from $12.4bn to $13.2bn.

Elsewhere, Nvidia rose 3.76% in pre-market action after the stock dropped almost 10% to begin the week after chief executive Jensen Huang confirmed he had an affair with an alleged Chinese spy

On the macro front, US mortgage applications rose by 6.2% in the week ended 6 November, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association, marking the sharpest weekly increase since June. Last week's increase helped trim the sharp decline in mortgage applications since the start of September, with a pullback in oil prices and a pivot to Treasury securities drove benchmark mortgage rates lower. Applications to refinance a mortgage, which are typically more sensitive to week-to-week interest rate changes, rose by 4.5%, while applications for a mortgage to purchase a new home rose by 7.5%.

No major corporate earnings were slated for release on Wednesday.

Reporting by Iain Gilbert at Sharecast.com

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