By Lawrence Delevingne and Amanda Cooper BOSTON/LONDON (Reuters) -Wall Street shares advanced on Thursday as investors cheered updates from Meta and Tesla , while gold hit a record and the U.S. dollar advanced on potential tariffs.
Wall Street are pointing mostly higher in premarket trading while more corporate earnings poured in a day after the Federal Reserve opted to leave its benchmark lending rate alone
Tesla — Shares of the electric vehicle manufacturer rose more than 2% even after Tesla's fourth-quarter results missed the mark. The company posted adjusted earnings of 73 cents per share on revenue of $25.71 billion. Analysts surveyed by LSEG were looking for 76 cents in earnings per share and $27.27 billion in revenue.
The Federal Reserve is widely expected to hold its benchmark interest rate steady Wednesday, taking a pause after cutting short-term rates [by a full percentage point](
The Fed is widely expected to make no change to interest rates today, after cutting the benchmark short-term rate at every one of its last three meetings. There also won't be any quarterly economic or interest-rate projections.
Investors react to the Federal Reserve's policy decision and Chairman Jerome Powell's press conference, as well as results from Meta, Microsoft and Tesla.
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Meta Platforms (META) stock is 1.9% higher premarket after strong Q4 earnings and a lawsuit settlement with Donald Trump
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However, the U.S. stock market could move sharply on Jan. 29 and Jan. 30 based on commentary from the Federal Reserve, and earnings results from several "Magnificent Seven" companies: Apple ( AAPL 3.65%), Meta Platforms ( META 2.19%), Microsoft ( MSFT 2.91%), and Tesla ( TSLA 0.24%). Read on for details.