Stock Market Today: Nasdaq, S&P 500 Lead Way After Meta Announces Job Cuts; Jobless Claims Report Lowest Since 2021

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The doorbell tolls. The U.S. markets are present open. Stock futures, which were earlier seen flat, person tipped up a small bit: the Nasdaq (+0.20%) and S&P 500(+0.21%) are opening higher acknowledgment to immoderate quality from Meta (+5.8%).

The tech elephantine is rocketing aft floating plans for cuts successful its ailing metaverse division, the precise crushed it changed its firm name. It has been an tremendous currency descend for the firm; possibly lone dwarfed by its new, much costly superior pursuit -- artificial intelligence.

Meanwhile, the Dow (+0.18%) and Russell 2000 (-0.10%) are doing their ain thing, with its components apt reacting to this morning's jobless claims and layoffs report. Those were a mixed bag. For much connected that, scroll down a small bit.

And connected the continuous declaration front, Natural Gas (-1.04% to $4.943), Brent (+0.32% to $62.87), Gold (+0.05% to $4,235.50), and Silver (-0.83% to $58.135) are benignant of doing their ain happening this morning.

Rounding retired the greeting trade, the 10Y Treasury is 2.5 tips higher astatine 4.083%, with conscionable a fewer days near connected the timepiece earlier the Fed's highly-anticipated December meeting.

This morning, security bundle institution Guidewire Software (+10.8%) and unreality supplier Snowflake (-9.1%) are connected other ends of the marketplace -- blasted the never-ending net season.

Joining Guidewire are a fewer different names of note: UiPath (+8.2%), which conscionable reported its earnings, is having a coagulated premarket showing.

There's besides discount retailer Dollar General (+4.6%), which jumped aft reporting beardown net this greeting and raising its outlook.

Also 1 to watch: Meta (+2.8%), which conscionable announced 30% cuts successful its metaverse division. This 1 mightiness person adjacent much country to run, arsenic investors heavy dislike the currency descend that has been Reality Labs.

Here are winning names this morning, per MarketWatch:

Meanwhile, connected the different extremity of the market, spirits elephantine Brown-Forman (-5%) is plummeting aft its ain net report, which showed profits and revenues declining. This has been a communal taxable for the company, which has faced headwinds galore aft its pandemic-era boom.