Nasdaq wants to enable trading on the exchange for nearly 24 hours a day during the week. Finance pros are mixed on the idea.

The Nasdaq stock market is asking the Securities and Exchange Commission for permission to start allowing nearly round-the-clock trading. Nearly, meaning 23 hours a day, five days a week.

Stocks jumped following the latest reading on consumer inflation that could help set expectations for the path of interest rates.

Critics argue that formalizing nearly nonstop trading could worsen some of the very problems that plague the structure of equity markets today.

Wells Fargo analysts on Tuesday criticized the Nasdaq Stock Market’s proposal to extend trading on U.S.-listed equities to 23 hours a day for five days a week, calling the plans the “worst thing in the world” and a risk to make stock trading “even more like gambling.”

US stock futures wavered overnight after snapping a recent losing streak, as signs of cooling inflation and waning AI worries buoyed Wall Street optimism toward the tail end of a topsy-turvy week. Investors have gotten through a catch-up week for economic data with next year's rate-cut hopes intact,

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Wall Street analysts expect another strong year in stocks in 2026, propelled by continued AI sector gains and additional Fed interest-rate cuts.

Stocks jumped following the latest reading on consumer inflation that could help set expectations for the path of interest rates.

The Dow rose 0.2% in premarket trading, as S&P 500 futures climbed 0.4%. Futures on the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 moved up 0.5%. The 10-year Treasury yield ticked higher to 4.18%. Oil prices rose to around $56.25 a barrel. Bitcoin edged down just below $87,000.