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The S&P 500 jumped 1% on Friday, Jan. 17, 2025, heading into the long weekend on a high note as prospects rebounded for additional interest-rate cuts in 2025.

Shares in Tencent dropped, after the Pentagon added the social-media and videogaming company to its list of "Chinese military companies." Tencent said the addition was "clearly a mistake."

The U.S. Department of Defense has designated CATL and Tencent as “Chinese military companies,” escalating trade and political tensions. The designation harms reputations, deters partnerships

The S&P 500 index’s biggest sector, information technology, was rising sharply Friday afternoon, but the gains were not quite large enough to lift it into positive territory so far in 2025. The tech sector was up 1.

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