Stock Market Today: Futures Tick Higher as Nvidia Shares Rise; Major Indexes on Track for Big Weekly Gains Stephen Wisnefski Fri, November 13, 2026 at 8:37 AM EST 3 min read NVDA -3.54% ^IXIC -1.53% ^DJI -0.31% ^GSPC -0.95% Trade NVIDIA on Coinbase Trading disclosure Trading disclosure The above button links to Coinbase. Yahoo Finance is not a broker-dealer or investment adviser and does not offer securities or cryptocurrencies for sale or facilitate trading. Coinbase pays us for certain activity generated through this link. Prices displayed are informational.
Stock futures are pointing to modest gains for major indexes as a volatile week of trading draws to a close.
Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the benchmark S&P 500 were recently up 0.3%, while tech-heavy Nasdaq futures hovered near unchanged. Stocks closed lower yesterday as market participants digested news that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang had stepped down, capping a swift and stunning downfall for the preeminent executive of the AI era.
Despite yesterday's losses, the S&P 500 and Nasdaq enter today's session up roughly 3% for the week, while the Dow has tacked on 2%. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq are on track to post weekly gains for the first time in more than a month.
Nvidia (NVDA) shares were up 2% in recent premarket trading, after dropping more than 4% yesterday. Shares of the chipmaker have been rocked by the Huang saga, which flared up last weekend amid reports that he had been romantically involved with a woman alleged to be a Chinese spy. The drama intensified when Huang acknowledged an extramarital affair and Nvidia's board launched an investigation, and reached a climax yesterday with the resignation, which came just hours after a report of another affair, with one of his direct reports.
Other chip stocks are mixed this morning. Shares of Broadcom (AVGO) and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) were down more than 1% ahead of the opening bell, while Intel (INTC), Marvell Technology (MRVL) and Micron (MU) gained about 1%. Shares of Applied Materials (AMAT) were up slightly after a better-than-expected quarterly earnings report from the maker of chipmaking equipment.
Shares of Cisco (CSCO) were in the red even as the networking hardware giant posted strong quarterly results and issued a rosy outlook amid growing AI-related demand. The stock, which had risen in after-hours trading Thursday immediately following the earnings release, were down 3% in premarket trading today.
Mega-cap tech stocks are mostly higher this morning, led by 1% gains for Amazon (AMZN), Alphabet (GOOGL) and Meta Platforms (META). Apple (AAPL) shares, which touched an all-time high during yesterday's session, were up slightly, while Microsoft (MSFT) stock was down 1% as the company reported progress in resolving a massive outage that affected its products yesterday.
While Microsoft said the outage wasn't the result of a breach, cybersecurity stocks are gaining ahead of the opening bell Friday. Crowdstrike (CRWD), Palo Alto Networks (PANW) and Fortinet (FTNT) each added more than 2%.
In other markets, WTI oil futures were down slightly at $88.60 per barrel, while gold futures were holding steady at $3,890 an ounce, after dropping to their lowest level in 13 months yesterday. Bitcoin was trading at $69,100, extending a month-long slide that has seen the cryptocurrency lose roughly 20% of its value.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury, which affects interest rates on a wide array of loans, ticked higher to 5.14%. The yield has surged this week—about a week ago the yield stood at 4.85%—amid concerns that the Federal Reserve will raise rates again next month to tame inflation that remains well above the Fed's target.
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Dow Jones Industrial Average futures were up 0.3%.
Futures tied to the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 hovered near unchanged.
