00:00All right. Futures green ahead of Monday's open here on Thanksgiving week. S&P futures up 0.65%.
00:13Dow futures up 0.36% and the NASDAQ leading the way higher here at 0.95%. Let's take a look at
00:22some cues from last session here. Communication services, healthcare, materials, consumer
00:28discretionary, consumer discretionary, excuse me, and real estate stock sectors led the gains on
00:34Friday as all sectors ended in the green. So we talked about a potential bottoming move and then
00:40a move higher on Friday. Well, indeed, that's exactly what we got. Can we hold on to that?
00:45That's obviously going to be the next $64,000 question. And as mentioned, futures green here
00:52in the pre-market ahead of the open optimism among investors is rising following New York Fed
00:57President John Williams indication that a rate cut in December is still on the table. We talked a
01:03little bit about that. The CME watch tool is changing pretty rapidly. We're going to keep
01:07our eye on that as we get closer to that December meeting date. He said in a speech on Friday that I
01:13quote, I still see room for further adjustment in the near term to the target range for the federal
01:20funds rate to move the stance of policy closer to the range of neutral, end quote. So basically
01:27telling you that it's a possibility here, but no decision has been made yet. Meanwhile, investors
01:32await earnings from Dell, HP, Deere, and Lee Auto this week and others in this Thanksgiving
01:40shortened week. The 10-year Treasury bond yielded 4.05%, hovering right around that 4%, unable to really
01:46trade beneath it yet. The two-year bond was at 3.51%. Now we do have some stocks in focus for you here
01:54today. The first one is going to be ticker Pony, P-O-N-Y. That rose 2.59% in the pre-market on
02:01Monday as it announced a partnership with ride-hailing platform Sunshine Mobility to build large-scale
02:07autonomous driving fleets. We have a new player here or another advancement in one of the players in the
02:14autonomous driving cycle. We ride is our next ticker here. That's ticker W-R-D. That jumped 7.92% as its
02:26revenue grew 144.3% year over year to $24 million. Gross profit also rose 1,123.9% year over year to
02:387.9 million in the third quarter. The next stock here is Alphabet. I know a lot of you folks are
02:45talking about Google already. Alphabet here, ticker G-O-O-G and G-O-O-G-L. That gained 2.38% after it
02:55surpassed Microsoft in market value on Friday following the launch of Gemini 3 and Nano Banana.
03:02I didn't know what Nano Banana was. Apparently, it is an AI tool that does a magnificent job
03:09creating images. And some of these images can be created for work purposes like flow charts
03:15and diagrams as well as the obvious comedy that can be layered on top of that. So I didn't have
03:22Nano Banana in my newsread here today, but here we are. This job continues to surprise. The next stock
03:29on the list here is going to be Zoom Communications. That's ticker ZM. That was 0.52% higher ahead of
03:35its expected earnings to be released after the closing bell here today. Wall Street is expecting
03:40121 per share on revenue of $1.21 billion. Remember, Zoom, one of the COVID darlings. We'll see if that
03:47can actually trade up on the back of its earnings. The last stock on our list of stocks in focus here
03:52today is going to be Keysight Technologies. This is ticker KEYS. That was up 0.45% as analysts expected
04:01to report earnings of $177 per share on revenue of $1.39 billion after the closing bell.
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