U.S. stock index futures gained late Thursday, after blowout earnings by some of tech’s biggest companies. As of midnight Eastern, Dow Jones Industrial Average futures
YM00,
+0.13%
were up about 40 points, or 0.1%, while S&P 500 futures
ES00,
+0.14%
rose 0.2% and Nasdaq-100 futures
NQ00,
+0.68%
rose 0.9%; all three were off highs from earlier in the overnight session. Apple
AAPL,
+1.21%
and Amazon
AMZN,
+0.60%
posted earnings Thursday afternoon that blew away analysts’ expectations, and Facebook
FB,
+0.51%
and Google parent Alphabet
GOOGL,
+0.97%
posted solid, if less jaw-dropping, results. During regular trading, the Dow
DJIA,
-0.85%
closed 225.92 points, or 0.9%, lower at 26,313.65, while the S&P 500
SPX,
-0.37%
lost 12.20 points, or 0.4%, to close at 3,246.24, and the Nasdaq Composite Index
COMP,
+0.42%,
gained 44.87 points, or 0.4%, to end at 10,587.81.