Svmuu News: Ahead of the U.S. stock market open, investors should pay close attention to the following key market developments:
1. U.S. major stock index futures are mixed. Dow Jones futures are up 0.06%, S&P 500 futures are down 0.37%, and Nasdaq-100 futures are down 0.99%.
2. International oil prices have risen in the short term. WTI crude oil futures are up 1.14% at $80.019 per barrel; Brent crude oil futures are up 1.10% at $85.884 per barrel.In related news, Iran informed Yemen’s Houthi rebels that it would close the Strait of Mandeb if the U.S. attacked its power grid.
3. International spot gold and silver prices fell across the board. Spot gold prices fell 1.08% to $4,016.39 per ounce; spot silver prices fell 2.49% to $56.30 per ounce.
4. Europe’s three major stock indices all closed lower. The UK’s FTSE 100 fell 0.44%, France’s CAC 40 fell 1.00%, and Germany’s DAX 30 fell 1.10%.
5. Memory chip stocks continued their downward trend in premarket trading, with SK Hynix and SanDisk falling more than 7%, Western Digital dropping nearly 8%, and Micron. Technology declining nearly 5%.
6. NVIDIA. announced a partnership with Japan’s Noetra to launch an AI factory equipped with 13,750 Vera CPUs and 27,500 Rubin GPUs, providing 140 megawatts of computing capacity to support the country’s physical AI infrastructure.
7. TSMC. raised its full-year 2026 capital expenditure guidance to $60–64 billion from the previous range of $52–56 billion and expects mass production of A14-process chips to begin in 2028.
8. Anthropic’s underwriters have begun arranging meetings between the company’s management and institutional investors over the coming weeks to prepare for the IPO roadshow. If everything proceeds as planned, Anthropic could go public as early as October of this year.
9. In an exclusive interview, Warren Buffett stated that his personal involvement led to Berkshire Hathaway’s investment in Alphabet, the parent company of Google, and noted that Apple remains one of his favorite stocks.
10. Citibank has added Lumentum, a fiber-optic technology stock, to a 90-day “Upside Catalyst Watch” list.