U.S. stocks rose in the Black Friday half‑day session (close 1:00 p.m. ET): S&P 500 +0.5%, Dow +0.6% (~+289 pts), Nasdaq +0.7%, marking a fifth straight up day even as the Nasdaq finished November down for the month.
The session was shortened for the holiday, with NYSE/Nasdaq closing at 1:00 p.m. ET and volumes thin.
A cooling‑issue outage at a CyrusOne data center briefly froze CME futures early; trading later resumed and indexes edged higher.
Rate‑cut hopes into the December Fed meeting underpinned sentiment; futures pricing implied roughly an 80%+ probability of another cut.
Retail remained in focus around Black Friday; broader indexes advanced while sector moves were mixed during the shortened session.