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Markets are pricing the end of the longest government shutdown in history – and another solid set of quarterly earnings.

Nvidia led the way and rose 3.7%. It and other winners in the frenzy around artificial-intelligence technology had been at the center of last week’s drop. Critics say their stock prices shot too high and too fast in the mania around AI, drawing comparisons to the 2000 dot-com bubble that ultimately burst.

As Kimberly-Clark has lagged behind the broader market over the past year, Wall Street analysts maintain a cautious outlook on the stock’s prospects.

The Cboe Volatility Index, better known as the VIX or Wall Street's "fear gauge," has bounced back above 20 on Friday as investors fret about still-high stock-market valuations and the possible economic fallout from what has become the longest government shutdown in U.

The S&P 500 slipped 0.2% in early trading. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 78 points, or 0.2%, as of 9:35 a.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 0.4% lower. All three are still near their all-time highs, but they’ve been shaky recently.

Stock index futures were largely flat on Wednesday, a day after Wall Street witnessed a sell-off as the AI-tech rally halted as investors grew worried about some heavy valuations of big tech companies.

The current bull market has been driven by huge artificial intelligence (AI) stocks like Nvidia and Palantir Technologies. But even though the S&P 500 is up 16% year to date, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 is up 22%, not all stocks are uniformly loved on Wall Street.

The company still needs a few big deals to move toward its ambition of a double-digit share of the AI data-center market.

US Stocks: US-based multinational chipmaking company, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), stock price jumped more than 6% during the pre-market trading session on Wall Street as the chipmaker forecasts data centre-driven sales growth in the next few years.