Amazon, Meta and Apple please Wall Street with another year of records in their accounts. After a day of sharp stock market falls as a result of the Fed's decision to keep interest rates intact, the three technology giants that presented results gave the final blow.

Amazon rose strongly in the after-hours market after a packed Christmas season, including record sales. Meta did the same by announcing better than expected results and confirming that it will begin paying dividends to its shareholders for the first time. And Apple stuck out its chest after breaking a revenue record in the services chapter (23,117 million dollars)