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[Overview of U.S. stock market pre-market news: The AI computing power rental sector generally rose before the market opened; Intel said it could only meet 50% of customers' CPU needs; Musk "oversaw" the SpaceX data center project on the front line] September 17th, the financial news in the U.S. stock market that investors need to focus on is as follows:
1. The three major U.S. stock index futures collectively rose. Dow Jones futures rose 1.18%, S&P 500 futures rose 1.26%, and Nasdaq 100 futures rose 1.66%.
2. International oil prices fell during the day. WTI crude oil futures prices fell 2.49% to US$95.085/barrel; Brent crude oil futures prices fell 3.68% to US$101.937/barrel.
3. International gold and silver spot prices continued their upward trend. Spot gold prices rose 2.54% to US$4,372.26 per ounce; spot silver prices rose 3.70% to US$65.29 per ounce.
4. The three major European stock indexes rose across the board. Britain's FTSE 100 index rose 0.82%, France's CAC40 index rose 0.53%, and Germany's DAX30 index rose 0.97%.
5. Nebius, an AI computing power leasing company, plans to increase the price of some GPU computing power by about 20% starting from October 1. Boosted by this, Nebius rose nearly 10% before the market opened, Oracle rose nearly 3%, and Amazon, Microsoft, Google, etc. followed suit.
6. Intel CEO said that the company's current CPU supply can only meet 50% of customer demand. He also revealed that Intel's 18A node has entered mass production, and the 14A node will be put into production in the first quarter of next year.
7. Novo Nordisk will cooperate with AI company Anthropic to use its Claude Science platform for scientific research to accelerate the development of new drugs, which is expected to compress medical breakthroughs that originally took a century to within ten years.
8. The U.S. International Trade Commission announced on September 16, local time, that it had launched a patent infringement investigation into certain electronic devices equipped with specific audio technologies. Targets of the investigation include Samsung Electronics and its U.S. subsidiaries, Apple and Google.
9. Musk said that he has lived in an RV and personally participated in SpaceX’s Colossus data center project in Memphis. SpaceX has now extended its computing power rental business to Google and Anthropic.
10. Apollo Asset Management is considering increasing the size of its loan to SoftBank from US$5.4 billion to US$9 billion to help it increase its investment in OpenAI.
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