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Facebook-parent Meta Platforms Inc jumped 18.9% in premarket
trading after the company also announced a new $40 billion share
buyback and said it would cut costs in 2023 by $5 billion to a
range of $89 billion to $95 billion.
Shares of other growth companies including Apple Inc, Alphabet
Inc and Amazon.com Inc rose between 1.1% and 4.3%. The three
companies are slated to report quarterly results after market
close.
Wall Street's main indexes got a boost in the previous session
from Powell acknowledging that inflation was starting to ease
after the U.S. central bank raised rates by 25 basis points.
Although a U.S. recession is widely priced in, Powell's comments
aided hopes of it being a mild one.
After a bruising 2022, U.S. stock markets have made a strong
start to the year, with megacap companies gaining on hopes that
the Fed will pull back from its hawkish monetary policy outlook,
which in turn could ease some pressure off their valuations.
At 5:18 a.m. ET, Dow e-minis were down 45 points, or 0.13%, S&P
500 e-minis were up 20.75 points, or 0.5%, and Nasdaq 100
e-minis were up 179 points, or 1.44%.
A 0.2% decline in shares of drugmaker Merck & Co ahead of its
quarterly report weighed on Dow futures.
(Reporting by Shreyashi Sanyal in Bengaluru; Editing by
Saumyadeb Chakrabarty)
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