US Stock Market Today: Wall Street Climbs in Black Friday Half‑Day as CME Outage Fades and Fed Cut Bets Grow
New York — U.S. stocks finished Black Friday’s abbreviated session higher, extending a late‑November rebound even after a rare futures outage at CME Group briefly froze global derivatives trading ahead of the open. In a holiday‑shortened session that ended at 1 p.m. ET, the S&P 500 gained around 0.4%, the tech‑heavy Nasdaq 100 added roughly 0.5%, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average…