us stock futures were indicating a slightly higher start in a shortened session for wall street on friday attention is expected to focus on the start of the holiday shopping season and whether consumer resilience is holding up markets were closed on thursday in observance of the thanksgiving day holiday equities finished higher for a second session on wednesday with the dow industrials djia rising 9596 points or 03 to finish at 3419406 the sp 500 spx gained 2368 points or 06 to 402726 while the nasdaq composite comp advanced 11091 points or 1 to end at 1128532 markets rose wednesday after the minutes of the november federal reserve meeting showed most policy makers expect a slower pace of interest rate increases ahead a batch of economic data also indicated growth is also slowing down investors are clinging to hopes that the fed will pivot or turn towards a less aggressive pace of rate hikes amid concerns the economy is facing a tough 2023 there is no data planned for friday which will mark a shortened session for wall street with trading ending at 1 pm eastern but investors are facing a busy week ahead with a large batch of data including thirdquarter gross domestic product the fed’s favored inflation gauge the pce price index home prices manufacturing updates and november payrolls data the postthanksgiving trading day also kicks off the start of annual holiday shopping known as black friday which could put shares of amazoncom amzn  walmart wmt and target tgt  among others in focus the bond market will also see a schedule similar to that of equities us treasury yields were little changed with that of the twoyear note tmubmusd02y down 1 basis point to 4467 and the yield on the 10year note tmubmusd10y steady at 3691