S&P 500 futures are little changed after index posts first winning session in three: Live updates

S&P 500 futures were little changed Wednesday evening after the index posted a winning session in what has been a rocky week.

Futures tied to the broad market index slipped less than 0.1%, while futures linked to the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 19 points, or 0.05%. Nasdaq 100 futures inched down 0.1%.

In extended trading, Intel popped more than 11% after the company said it had appointed Lip-Bu Tan as its new CEO. Adobe slipped roughly 4% after forecasting weaker-than-expected earnings in the fiscal second quarter.

In Wednesday's regular trading, beleaguered tech stocks caught a bid as investors snapped up shares, lifting the Nasdaq Composite to a 1.2% gain and carrying the S&P 500 to a 0.5% advance. The tech sector was the top performer in the session, up nearly 1.6% as Nvidia and Palantir Technologies surged. The 30-stock Dow was an outlier, however, notching a third straight losing day and falling 0.2%.

The February consumer price index — a wide-ranging measure of costs across the U.S. economy — came in softer than expected. Headline inflation rose 0.2% from the prior month and 2.8% on an annual basis.

The results may have eased traders' concerns about the direction of the economy and the impact tariffs could have on inflation. Indeed, President Donald Trump's steel and aluminum tariffs went into effect on Wednesday, and Canada slapped a 25% retaliatory levy on more than $20 billion of U.S. goods.

Though market strategists have been watching for a technical bounce after recent sell off, some say the latest inflation print likely isn't enough to lead to a sizable rebound. Concerns over Trump's trade policies remain a key hangover on investor sentiment, and they throw into question how the Federal Reserve may proceed on