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With U.S. stock markets set to open in two hours, J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. $(JBHT)$ was up 12.8% in pre-market trading, and Snowflake Inc. (SNOW) was up 6.5%.

Knight-Swift Transportation Holdings Inc. Cl A $(KNX)$, Home BancShares Inc. (HOMB), and Centrus Energy Corp. (LEU) were all posting gains of at least 6%. In early trading, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. $(HPE)$ and Travelers Cos. Inc. $(TRV)$ had posted declines, falling 9.9% and 4.6%, respectively.

Meanwhile S&P 500 futures were up 0.41%, with futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average rising 0.23%. The Cboe Volatility Index futures were up 2.17%.

In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were up 0.73%, and gold futures were up 1.40%. Bitcoin climbed 0.02% to $111,349.

The 10-Year Treasury yield rose to 4.035%.

In the previous regular trading session, the S&P 500 was up 0.40%, while the Dow was down 0.04%. Stocks in Asia were up overnight, with Japan's NIKKEI 225 Index up 1.27% and China's Shanghai Composite Index rising 0.10%.

In afternoon trading, stocks in Europe are mixed, with the STOXX Europe 600 Index increasing 0.40% and the FTSE 100 Index falling 0.12% from the previous close.

U.S. stock markets open for trading at 9:30 a.m. ET.

Data source: Dow Jones Market Data, FactSet. Data compiled October 16, 2025.

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