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Stock futures rise after S&P 500, Nasdaq post worst day since 2022: Live updates

Stock futures rose Wednesday night after a sharp tech-driven sell-off dragged the Nasdaq Composite and the S&P 500 to their worst session since 2022.

Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average added 108 points, or about 0.3%. S&P 500 futures rose 0.3%, while Nasdaq 100 futures advanced 0.5%.

In after-hours trading, Ford Motor shares tumbled about 11% after the company's second-quarter earningscame in much lower than analysts had expected. Chipotle, meanwhile, added roughly 4% after topping earnings and revenue expectations as it saw higher traffic at its restaurants. IBM and ServiceNow also rose after beating expectations.

Wednesday's trading session saw intense declines for the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite, driven by disappointing quarterly reports from Alphabet and Tesla. This led other heavyweight tech stocks and artificial intelligence darlings like Nvidia and Microsoft to fall in sympathy. Both the broad-market index and the tech-heavy benchmark posted their worst session since 2022, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average shed roughly 504 points to end the day.

Investors have been viewing the recent declines as a sign of an overdue correction in an overbought market, which is now seeing a rotation away from megacap tech into small-cap stocks and more cyclical areas of the market.

"We do have a lot of uncertainty right now … Also, I would call it an air of skepticism in terms of what [artificial intelligence] can deliver in terms of profitability and productivity, at least in the near term. And the market right now is a very much in a 'show me' state and wants to see this happen or see proof on a more accelerated timeframe," Yung-Yu Ma, chief investment officer for BMO Wealth Management, said on CNBC's "Closing

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