[Gate Pre-Market and After-Hours Stock Trading Officially Launched, Trading Hours Extended to 16×5] Odaily Planet Daily News – Gate has officially launched pre-market and after-hours stock trading functionality, extending stock trading hours from the original 6.5×5 to 16×5, further enhancing users' flexibility and efficiency in participating in global capital markets. Currently, users can update the Gate App to version 8.21.5 or above to buy and sell stocks outside of regular U.S. stock market trading hours, enabling more timely responses to earnings releases, company announcements, macroeconomic data, and other market-breaking news, seizing more investment opportunities. Gate Stocks allows users to trade over 10,000 U.S. mainstream market stocks and ETFs using USDT, covering major U.S. securities exchanges and liquidity networks such as NYSE (New York Stock Exchange), Nasdaq, NYSE Arca, NYSE American, and BATS. It also supports fractional share trading starting from as little as 0.01 shares. Leveraging Gate's unified account system, users can manage and allocate digital assets and global securities assets on a single platform, further improving cross-market investment efficiency.