These 10 Firms Topped Wednesday’s Trading

Wall Street’s major indices rebounded anew on Wednesday as worries about tariff policies and the Federal Reserve’s independence tapered off after President Donald Trump assured that he had no intentions of ousting Jerome Powell.

The Nasdaq surged by 2.5 percent, the S&P 500 rose by 1.67 percent, while the Dow Jones increased by 1.07 percent.

Ten companies mirrored the broader market optimism as optimistic investors resumed pouring funds into their stocks. In this article, we have identified Wednesday’s 10 best-performing stocks during the intra-day trading and detailed the reasons behind their strong performance.

To come up with the list, we considered only the stocks with more than $2 billion in market capitalization and $5 million in intraday trading volume.

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10. Palantir Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:PLTR)

Palantir Technologies Inc. saw its share prices rally by as much as 10.2 percent at intraday trading on Wednesday before closing the day just up by 7.27 percent at $100.82 apiece, as investors cheered news that it partnered with Google to integrate its cloud into the former’s FedStart initiative.

Leigh Palmer, vice president for technology, delivery, and operations at Google’s public sector, said in a statement that the collaboration aims to enhance the delivery of services to US government agencies while upholding the highest security and compliance standards.

Anthropic, Google’s generative artificial intelligence startup, was said to be the first software company to use the new capability. Its Claude for Enterprise application will be available to federal government agencies through PLTR FedStart on Google Cloud.

“By partnering with industry leaders to bring cutting-edge technologies to the US government, Google can accelerate public sector mission impact and outcomes,” Palmer said.

9. XPeng Inc. (NYSE:XPEV)

Chinese EV-maker XPeng Inc. rose for a second day on Wednesday, jumping 10.38 percent at intraday trading before ending the day up by 7.32 percent at $20.47 apiece as investors cheered news of a surge in deliveries in the first quarter of the year, coupled with the upcoming launches of more vehicles.

In a statement on Wednesday, XPEV said global deliveries in the first quarter of the year expanded by 370 percent to 94,008 units from the same period a year earlier, putting its total global deliveries to 700,000 units.

Additionally, its newly unveiled XPENG X9 variant alone received 6,000 firm orders within just seven days from launch.

XPEV also launched what it touted as the next-generation AI brain called XPENG World Foundation Model with 35 times the parameters of conventional vision-language-action models, enabling real-time adaptation to complex driving scenarios. The system’s self-optimizing capabilities enable real-time adaptation to unfamiliar driving scenarios.