(For a Reuters live blog on U.S., UK and European stock markets, click or type LIVE/ in a news window.) * Futures up: Dow 0.01%, S&P 0.07%, Nasdaq 0.15% April 18 (Reuters) - Futures for the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq gained on Thursday as some chip stocks recouped losses after a sell-off, while investors awaited Federal Reserve policymakers' stance...

OSLO, April 18 (Reuters) - Norway's $1.6 trillion wealth fund, the world's largest, posted a record profit of 1.2 trillion crowns ($109 billion) on Thursday for the first quarter of 2024, boosted by strong tech stocks and a continuing boom in artificial intelligence. It was the fund's highest quarterly return in absolute terms since its creation in 1996 and compared...

(Reuters) - Futures for the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq gained on Thursday as some chip stocks recouped losses after a sell-off, while investors awaited Federal Reserve policymakers' stance on interest-rate cuts in the face of resilient economic data. Chipmakers such as Advanced Micro Devices, Nvidia and Applied Materials gained between 0.3% and 0.7% in premarket trading. Micron Technology advanced...

(Reuters) - Futures for the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq gained on Thursday as some chip stocks recouped losses after a sell-off, while investors awaited Federal Reserve policymakers' stance on interest-rate cuts in the face of resilient economic data. Chipmakers such as Advanced Micro Devices, Nvidia and Applied Materials gained between 0.3% and 0.7% in premarket trading. Micron Technology advanced...