By Oliver Gray 

- U.S. stock futures were trading higher during Wednesday’s evening deals, after major indices closed out the regular session in a mixed fashion as the showed that policymakers are ready to keep raising interest rates to quell surging inflation pressures.

By 6:40pm ET (11:40pm GMT) added 0.1%, lifted 0.2% and lifted 0.5%.

In extended deals, NVIDIA (NASDAQ:) added 8.8% after Q4 EPS of $0.88 versus $0.81 expected, while revenue was reported at $6.05 billion versus $6.01 billion expected. NVIDIA forecasted Q1 2024 revenue of $6.5 billion versus $6.33 billion expected.

eBay (NASDAQ:) traded 4.9% lower after Q4 EPS of $1.07 versus $1.06 expected on revenue of $2.5 billion versus $2.46 billion expected.

 Etsy (NASDAQ:) gained 5.2% after the company Q4 EPS of $0.77 versus $0.80, while revenue came in at $807.2 million versus $754.31 million expected.

(NYSE:) fell 8.2% after the company Q4 EPS of $0.03 versus $0.01 expected on revenues of $451 million versus $434.7 million expected.

Ahead in Thursday’s trade, investors will be looking toward and data, as well as a speech from .

Among earnings results, companies including Group Holdings Ltd ADR (NYSE:), (NASDAQ:), (NYSE:) and Bath & Body Works Inc. (NYSE:) are slated to report throughout the session, while Warner Bros Discovery Inc (NASDAQ:) and Co (NYSE:) will release results after the close.

During Wednesday’s regular trade, the fell 84.5 points or 0.3% to 33,045.1 dipped 6.3 points or 0.2% to 3,991.1 and the added 14.8 points or 0.1% to 11,507.1.

On the bond markets rates were at 3.927%