A[A list of pre-market news in the U.S. stock market: Corning plans to increase the price of display glass substrate products by at least 15% starting from Q4 this year; Angpai’s signing of Mbappe soared by more than 6% before the market opened; the “Three Witch Days” of U.S. stocks are coming tonight] September 18th, 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 rose or fell mixedly. Dow Jones futures fell 0.30%, S&P 500 futures fell 0.07%, and Nasdaq 100 futures rose 0.10%.
2. The decline in international oil prices narrowed. WTI crude oil futures prices fell 0.53% to US$96.713/barrel; Brent crude oil futures prices fell 1.04% to US$98.893/barrel. On the news, Saudi Arabia told European refiners that it will not be able to obtain crude oil supplies next month.
3. International gold and silver spot prices rose collectively. Spot gold prices rose 0.65% to US$4,369.67 per ounce; spot silver prices rose 2.29% to US$66.69 per ounce.
4. The three major European stock indexes fell across the board. Britain's FTSE 100 index fell 1.07%, France's CAC40 index fell 1.28%, and Germany's DAX30 index fell 1.13%.
5. Corning announced that due to exchange rate and inflation factors, the company will implement price adjustments of 15% or more for display glass substrate products priced in Japanese yen globally, which will take effect in the fourth quarter of 2026.
6. SpaceX is reported to have internal discussions to purchase customer and operational data from troubled or bankrupt start-ups, hoping to obtain more high-quality data at a relatively low cost to improve the performance of its AI models.
7. Solidigm, a subsidiary of SK Hynix, is considering building its first NAND flash memory factory in the United States and is currently evaluating various options, but has not yet confirmed any plans.
8. Hacktron AI, an independent information security research team, was invited by OpenAI to use Anthropic's Claude model to find and exploit a series of vulnerabilities, and successfully invaded the ChatGPT account of an OpenAI employee. This intrusion test was authorized security research.
9. Sports brand Angpa’s stock price rose by more than 6% before the market opened, while Nike fell by more than 1%. According to the news, Angpa has signed French football superstar Kylian Mbappe from Nike.
10. JPMorgan Chase recently pointed out that Bitcoin has greater upside potential than gold, mainly because its ETF fund inflow scale is much smaller than that of gold ETFs, and there are a large number of short positions that can easily trigger a squeeze.
11. Goldman Sachs downplayed concerns about a "profit bubble" in U.S. companies and predicted the S&P 500 index would rise to 8,700 points within a year.
12. The U.S. stock market will usher in the quarterly "Triple Witching Day" tonight, that is, three types of contracts, namely stock index futures, stock index options and individual stock options, will expire at the same time, and the market may face a liquidity test. A[Overview of U.S. stock market pre-market news: U.S. PPI increased 5.4% year-on-year in August, higher than expected; the European Central Bank raised interest rates by 25 basis points; Nvidia was named for investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice] September 10th, the financial news in the U.S. stock market that investors need to pay attention to are as follows:
1. The U.S. PPI in August increased by 5.4% year-on-year, and the estimate was 5.3%; it increased by 0.4% month-on-month, and the estimate was 0.4%. After the release of PPI data, traders have fully digested expectations that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates in October.
2. The European Central Bank raised its three key interest rates by 25 basis points, in line with market expectations. Traders kept their interest rate bets on the European Central Bank unchanged, predicting one more rate hike in 2026.
3. The three major U.S. stock index futures fell collectively. Dow Jones futures fell 0.29%, S&P 500 futures fell 0.56%, and Nasdaq 100 futures fell 1.19%.
4. International oil prices have collectively risen sharply. WTI crude oil futures prices rose 4.78% to US$100.644/barrel; Brent crude oil futures prices rose 4.43% to US$105.694/barrel. On the news, Saudi Arabia told OPEC that its crude oil production has once again plunged to its lowest level since 1990.
5. International gold and silver spot prices both fell. Spot gold prices fell 1.66% to US$4,328.50 per ounce; spot silver prices fell by 4.89% to US$63.97 per ounce.
6. International copper prices plummeted. LME copper futures fell 3.55% to US$14,286.5/ton; COMEX copper futures fell 4.67% to 6.567 cents/lb. According to the news, the White House has not yet decided whether to impose tariffs on refined copper.
7. The three major European stock indexes fell across the board. Britain's FTSE 100 index fell 0.56%, France's CAC40 index fell 0.23%, and Germany's DAX30 index fell 0.56%.
8. The U.S. Department of Justice is reported to be investigating whether the $20 billion licensing deal between Nvidia and AI chip startup Groq was deliberately designed to avoid antitrust review.
9. Many Wall Street institutions have divided attitudes towards the increase in Apple's new products: Jefferies and KeyBanc are both slightly bearish on its stock price due to profit margin issues; HSBC and Bank of America are relatively optimistic.
10. TSMC’s revenue in August increased by 53.3% year-on-year to NT$514.8 billion (approximately US$16 billion). In the first eight months of this year, cumulative revenue reached NT$3.38 trillion, a year-on-year increase of 39.3%.
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