TechFlow News, July 20, according to Cailianshe, overview of key pre-market news for US stocks: Musk denied SpaceX AI server orders to Hon Hai; Anthropic exposed testing AMD AI GPUs; optical communication and storage sectors rose in pre-market trading;
1. Three major US stock index futures moved higher moderately. Dow Jones Index futures rose 0.26%, S&P 500 Index futures rose 0.45%, Nasdaq 100 Index futures rose 0.92%.
2. International oil prices rose sharply in the short term. WTI crude oil futures price rose 0.08%, reported at 81.843 USD/barrel; Brent crude oil futures price rose 0.28%, reported at 88.345 USD/barrel. On the news front, Houthi forces announced a "maritime navigation ban" on Saudi Arabia.
3. International spot gold and silver prices mixed. Spot gold price fell 0.12%, reported at 4011.46 USD/ounce; spot silver price rose 1.75%, reported at 56.86 USD/ounce.
4. Three major European stock indices mixed. UK FTSE 100 Index fell 0.29%, France CAC40 Index rose 0.29%, Germany DAX30 Index rose 0.24%.
5. Musk denied rumors on social media platform X that SpaceX plans to order about 13,000 NVIDIA GB300 AI server racks from Hon Hai.
6. JPMorgan stated it is still "too early" to reflect the turning point in semiconductor prices into the market, expecting earnings growth to drive a rebound in the US stock chip sector.
7. Semiconductor research firm SemiAnalysis stated that by analyzing GitHub code released by AMD executives, Anthropic may become its AI GPU client, with signs of cooperation appearing in public code.
8. US stock optical communication and storage sectors rose in pre-market trading. Lumentum rose over 3%, Coherent, Corning rose over 2%; SK Hynix, Micron Technology, SanDisk rose over 4%.
