Meta Platforms and most other U.S. stocks are rising, but drops for Nvidia and Microsoft are weighing on the market. The S&P 500 rose 0.3% in afternoon trading Thursday.

U.S. stocks ended lower on Wednesday, but off their lows of the day, with the Federal Reserve holding interest rates steady as expected and Fed Chair Jerome Powell offering soothing comments for investors.

Wall Street's main indexes rose on Thursday, driven by post-earnings advances in Meta and Tesla, although Microsoft's weak cloud forecast and downbeat results from Cigna dampened investor enthusiasm. Microsoft MSFT.O dropped 4.7% after forecasting disappointing growth in its cloud computing business.

Long a popular stock in the restaurant sector, Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE: CMG) still has quite some room to run, according to one analyst at a major U.S. bank. Towards the end of January, the prognosticator lowered his price target on the shares,

As the global tech sector was catching up to the disruption caused by DeepSeek’s r1 AI model, Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba announced its brand new Qwen 2.5 AI model on the first day of the Lunar New Year. The Qwen 2.5 is pre-trained on large-scale multilingual and multimodal data and rivals DeepSeek’s AI model.

Cantor Fitzgerald dropped cannabis coverage, and its former analyst Pablo Zuanic has set up his shop, Zuanic & Associates. Eric Des Lauriers at Craig-Hallum Capital Group continues to cover cannabis and Andrew Semple at Ventum Financial oversees Special Situations and pops up on some cannabis earnings calls.

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Despite the recent crash and the emergence of DeepSeek, Wall Street analysts have generally maintained their bullish outlook on Nvidia stock.

Many quantum computing stocks have risen well above Wall Street's price targets, but this one still has room to climb.

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Allurion stock soars on weight-loss therapy update. Stardust Power breaks ground on Oklahoma lithium refinery. OpenAI launches shopping agent Operator; Etsy, eBay tick higher.

The emerging, cost-effective Chinese AI alternatives have prompted US President Donald Trump to say it is a wake-up call to Silicon Valley.