Friday could see a surge in trading activity due to triple witch option expirations and S&P index rebalance trades, NYSE's Michael Reinking said.

Markets took a breather on Friday, with stock futures little changed in premarket trading after rallying to record highs yesterday on the Fed's supersized rate cut earlier in the week.

Dow Jones futures fell Friday as Nike surged after announcing a leadership change. FedEx stock plunged on earnings news.

Now, YouTube confirms advertisers can broadly target your paused screentime: “As we’ve seen both strong advertiser and strong viewer response, we’ve since widely rolled out Pause ads to all advertisers,” YouTube comms manager Oluwa Falodun confirms to The Verge.

During the start of this month, several users spotted a new ‘Pause Ads’ option for the YouTube TV app. Now, we can confirm that this is indeed rolling out for the masses. YouTube made the confirmation recently where it explained how the ‘Pause Ads’ feature was launching to all advertisers after receiving a strong response during the testing period.

YouTube started piloting the feature in 2023 with a limited number of advertisers, and now they can appear any time you pause your screen.

Ukraine’s central bank left interest rates unchanged for a second straight meeting in a sign that policymakers won’t tolerate higher inflation despite growing strains on the war-time budget.

The U.K. central bank left its key interest rate unchanged, taking a more cautious approach than the Federal Reserve.