Svmuu News: Pre-Market Highlights for U.S. Stocks:
1. Futures for the three major U.S. stock indices are trading slightly lower. Dow Jones futures are down 0.11%, S&P 500 futures are down 0.10%, and Nasdaq-100 futures are down 0.14%.As of the previous trading day, the S&P 500 had gained 14% for the quarter and is on track for its best quarterly performance in six years.
2. International oil prices edged higher. WTI crude oil futures rose 0.49% to $71.096 per barrel, while Brent crude oil futures rose 0.66% to $74.399 per barrel.
3. International spot gold and silver prices were mixed. Spot gold prices fell 0.07% to $4,013.60 per ounce; spot silver prices rose 0.15% to $58.36 per ounce.
4. Anthropic announced that its Claude large language model is now fully available on the Azure cloud platform at Microsoft, powered by NVIDIA GB300 Blackwell Ultra GPUs.
5. Anthropic has reached a new agreement with Amazon, switching the billing model from per-computing-hour charges to per-token charges. Amazon This may result in higher costs.
6. Bernstein raised SanDisk’s price target from $1,700 to $3,000, which is currently the highest target price set by any institution, representing an upside potential of approximately 50%.
7. The CEO of Exelon, the U.S. nuclear power leader, warned that the U.S. could face power outages as early as 2027 due to pressure from growing electricity demand, and that AI giants have underestimated the “headwinds ahead.”