Stocks were pointing higher early Wednesday as traders coped with a raft of factors that could be market moving–everything from Big Tech earnings to a Federal Reserve interest-rate decision to new executive orders from President Donald Trump are on deck. After seeing the rise of Chinese chatbot DeepSeek as a threat to the artificial intelligence boom that has driven technology shares for the past two years, there was a reassessment. The Fed will announce its latest rate decision at 2 p.m. Eastern time today.