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[Overview of US stock market pre-market news: NVIDIA is reported to have acquired Hugging Face for US$12.9 billion; Amazon will purchase an additional 2 million NVIDIA GPUs; Kioxia and SanDisk plan to invest approximately US$31 billion to expand memory chip production capacity] August 27th, the financial news of the US stock market that investors need to focus on is as follows:
1. The three major U.S. stock index futures trends are divergent. Dow Jones futures fell 0.11%, S&P 500 futures rose 0.39%, and Nasdaq 100 futures rose 1.02%.
2. International oil prices rose slightly. WTI crude oil futures prices rose 0.18% to US$82.381/barrel; Brent crude oil futures prices rose 0.32% to US$87.217/barrel.
3. International gold and silver spot prices fluctuated within a narrow range. Spot gold prices fell 0.01% to US$4,594.00 per ounce; spot silver prices rose 0.34% to US$68.33 per ounce.
4. Europe's three major stock indexes were mixed. Britain's FTSE 100 index fell 0.43%, France's CAC40 index fell 1.01%, and Germany's DAX30 index rose 0.27%.
5. NVIDIA is accelerating the layout of the entire AI chain ecosystem and is reported to have acquired Hugging Face, an open source AI model collaboration platform, for US$12.9 billion.
6. Amazon announced plans to deploy an additional 2 million NVIDIA GPUs in the Amazon Cloud Service (AWS) global infrastructure from 2027 to 2028. The chips involved in this latest deal include Blackwell Ultra, Rubin and Rubin Ultra graphics cards.
7. Qualcomm is joining hands with Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix and TSMC to jointly promote the commercialization of HBC (high-bandwidth computing) chips. The first-generation products are expected to be shipped next year.
8. Kioxia and SanDisk plan to invest more than 5 trillion yen ($31.4 billion) to increase production capacity in Japan, aiming to increase the production of the latest high-density 3D flash memory chips that are currently in short supply.
9. The administrator of NASA proposed the establishment of a space data center, saying that it can be powered by solar energy to alleviate the power shortage problem in the United States and will not compete with communities for land.
10. The official website of the Drug Evaluation Center of the China National Medical Products Administration shows that the marketing application for Novo Nordisk® tablets (semaglutide tablets) submitted by Novo Nordisk for long-term weight management has been officially accepted.
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