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title: "Nasdaq futures rose 1% in early Asia-Pacific trading, Microsoft surged over 8% after hours, Meta rose 4.8%, and NVIDIA increased by 4%"
description: "On Thursday (May 1), in the early Asia-Pacific session, Nasdaq 100 index futures rose over 1%, S&P 500 index futures rose 0.62%, and Dow futures rose 0.26%. Microsoft (MSFT) is currently (after-hours "
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published_at: "2025-04-30T22:06:18.000Z"
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# Nasdaq futures rose 1% in early Asia-Pacific trading, Microsoft surged over 8% after hours, Meta rose 4.8%, and NVIDIA increased by 4%

> On Thursday (May 1), in the early Asia-Pacific session, Nasdaq 100 index futures rose over 1%, S&P 500 index futures rose 0.62%, and Dow futures rose 0.26%. Microsoft (MSFT) is currently (after-hours trading) up 8.35%, Meta is up 4.83%, NVIDIA is up 4.1%, Amazon is up 3.43%, Broadcom and TSMC ADR are both up over 2.5%, while NXP is down 0.6%, and Qualcomm is down 6.37%

On Thursday (May 1), in the early Asia-Pacific session, Nasdaq 100 index futures rose over 1%, S&P 500 index futures rose 0.62%, and Dow futures rose 0.26%.

Microsoft (MSFT) is currently (after-hours trading) up 8.35%, Meta is up 4.83%, NVIDIA is up 4.1%, Amazon is up 3.43%, Broadcom and TSMC ADR are both up over 2.5%, while NXP is down 0.6%, and Qualcomm is down 6.37%

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