Svmuu News: Ahead of the U.S. stock market open, investors should pay close attention to the following key market and financial news:
1. Futures for the three major U.S. stock indices are all trading lower. Dow Jones futures are down 0.98%, S&P 500 futures are down 0.94%, and Nasdaq-100 futures are down 1.36%.
2. International oil prices surged intraday. WTI crude oil futures rose 4.68% to $90.896 per barrel; Brent crude oil futures rose 3.87% to $93.670 per barrel.
3. International spot gold and silver prices fell across the board. Spot gold prices fell 1.57% to $4,064.97 per ounce; spot silver prices fell 2.82% to $58.00 per ounce.
4. Losses widened across Europe’s three major stock indices. The UK’s FTSE 100 fell 0.45%, France’s CAC 40 fell 1.28%, and Germany’s DAX 30 fell 0.91%.
5. Google. reported negative quarterly free cash flow for the first time since its IPO. Google. also raised its full-year capital expenditure forecast, estimating that annual capital expenditures will range from $195 billion to $205 billion. Google. shares fell 5% in premarket trading.
6. Google. stated that following SpaceX’s IPO, the value of its SpaceX shares stood at $94 billion, of which approximately $80 billion is subject to short-term lock-up agreements.
7. South Korea’s securities depository agency stated that SK Hynix has set the maximum ratio for converting its South Korean-listed common stock into American Depositary Receipts (ADRs) at 2.5% of its total issued shares, and the current conversion quota has been fully utilized.
8. Musk said that Micron has allocated a large number of memory chips to Tesla, and that the supply terms are “very reasonable.”
9. European Central Bank (ECB) kept its three key interest rates unchanged. Traders’ bets on European Central Bank (ECB) remain stable, with expectations of a 48-basis-point rate hike by year-end. (CLS)