Stock futures are higher Wednesday as investors welcome news that the U.S. reached a trade agreement with Japan and prepare for the release of quarterly results from major technology companies.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average surged 450 points, or 1%, and the S&P 500 moved up 0.7%, on course for a record high close. The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite rose 0.5%. Small caps on the Russell 2000 climbed 1%.

Stock sales by top officials clustered before Trump's major tariff announcements, according to a USA TODAY analysis of transaction forms.

Ed Mills, Raymond James Washington policy analyst, joins 'The Exchange' to discuss President Trump's AI policy blueprint and the impact of Trump's megabill.

GrabAGun, which says it's the Amazon of guns and counts Donald Trump Jr. as board member, saw its stock tank for a second day on Thursday.

Short squeezes have been a key piece of the stock market rally as short sellers have lost just shy of $355 billion since the market bottom on April 8, according to data from S3 Partners.

General Motors and other U.S. companies give updates on how much President Trump’s tariffs are impacting them.

Shares of BitMine, where tech billionaire Peter Thiel is the top investor and whose chairman is Fundstrat's Tom Lee, advanced 5.3%. Other ether holding firms Bit Digital, BTCS and SharpLink Gaming climbed between 3.1% and 12.6%, respectively.