A[Overview of U.S. stock market pre-market news: AMD said it was "very satisfied" with HBM4; Google cooperated with Unity to launch a next-generation AI gaming platform; the 30-year U.S. bond yield rose above 5.7%] On October 7, the financial news of the U.S. stock market that investors need to focus on is as follows:
1. Futures on the three major U.S. stock indexes fell collectively. Dow Jones futures fell 0.87%, S&P 500 futures fell 0.50%, and Nasdaq 100 futures fell 0.86%.
2. International oil prices both rose. WTI crude oil futures prices rose 0.70% to US$90.064/barrel; Brent crude oil futures prices rose 1.18% to US$101.770/barrel.
3. International gold and silver spot prices plunged in the short term. Spot gold prices fell 2.14% to US$4,074.88 per ounce; spot silver prices fell by 3.83% to US$58.98 per ounce.
4. The three major European stock indexes fell across the board. Britain's FTSE 100 index fell 0.64%, France's CAC40 index fell 1.26%, and Germany's DAX30 index fell 1.36%.
5. AMD CEO Su Zifeng said that AMD is working on optimizing memory under tight supply. It has received strong support from Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix in terms of HBM. AMD is "very satisfied" with HBM4.
6. Musk said that his subsidiaries will independently build and operate Terafab, a terawatt-level chip manufacturing project, ruling out the possibility of TSMC taking over and operating this project.
7. Lambda, a cloud computing startup backed by Nvidia, is raising up to $4 billion in funding, with a pre-money valuation of $14.5 billion. Its AI computing power backlog had grown to US$50 billion by September.
8. Google and Unity have reached a cooperation on a new AI game platform for the next generation of interactive entertainment, and will launch the Unity Spark creation platform later this year.
9. The latest report from Aterio, a data center research institution, shows that Oracle’s 1.3GW data center project “Project Lighthouse” in Wisconsin, USA, faces the risk of power supply delays. Under the baseline scenario, full power supply may be postponed to October 2028, and under the extension scenario, it may be postponed to April 2029.
10. The 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry will be awarded to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai for their "discovery of nonlinear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis."
11. The yield on the 30-year U.S. Treasury bond rose above 5.7%, rising more than 6 basis points during the day and continuing to hit the highest level since 2002.
12. Bank of America strategists said that the attractiveness of U.S. debt has increased, forming "real competition" with U.S. stocks for the first time in decades. The current 10-year U.S. Treasury yield has exceeded 5%, and its team’s valuation framework shows that the return rate of the S&P 500 Index in the next 10 years may not reach this level. A[Overview of U.S. stock market pre-market news: U.S. stock index futures and European stocks collectively rose, Musk’s net worth returned to one trillion U.S. dollars, and OpenAI took new preventive measures after its agent accessed Australian data without authorization] October 6th, the financial news of the U.S. stock market that investors need to focus on is as follows:
1. Futures on the three major U.S. stock indexes rose collectively. So far, Dow Jones Index futures are up 0.71%, S&P 500 Index futures are up 0.50%, and Nasdaq 100 Index futures are up 0.63%.
2. The major European stock indexes rose collectively. So far, the UK's FTSE 100 index has risen by 0.37%, the French CAC40 index has risen by 0.57%, the German DAX30 index has risen by 0.73%, and the FTSE Italian MIB index has risen by 0.78%.
3. International crude oil futures fell sharply during the session. As of now, the price of WTI crude oil futures has fallen by 2.66% to US$87.048/barrel; the price of Brent crude oil futures has fallen by 2.75% to US$97.557/barrel.
3. The wealth of the world's richest man, Elon Musk, increased by US$65 billion on Monday, and his net worth exceeded one trillion US dollars again after three months.
4. Google and Constellation reached an 890-megawatt nuclear power capacity agreement.
5. AMD CEO said that the supply of memory chips is still tight and the demand in the next few years will be very high.
6. Seagate and Toshiba are reported to be bidding for TDK's hard disk head business, and the transaction amount may reach billions of dollars.
7. According to people familiar with the matter, DayOne Data Center, which is backed by SoftBank, plans to raise up to US$5 billion in a US IPO and plans to list ADS on Nasdaq by the end of this year at the latest.
8. OpenAI Chief Strategy Officer Jason Quan said in Sydney on the 6th that after an OpenAI agent accessed the Australian National Health Insurance System data portal without authorization, his company has adopted new preventive monitoring measures and has learned lessons from the incident.
9. Samsung Electro-Mechanics received nearly 290 billion won in AI server MLCC orders.
10. Goldman Sachs raised TSMC’s 12-month target price from NT$3,100 to NT$3,300, indicating an upside potential of approximately 28%.
11. The Saudi Energy Minister said that the oil currently transported through the East-West Pipeline has reached 5.8 million barrels.
12. The Defense Minister said that he has instructed the military to increase their alertness to deal with possible attacks.
13. The Russian Ministry of Defense stated that it has continued to attack Ukraine’s logistics centers and port facilities.
14. ECB Governing Council member Rehn said that the ECB will not pre-commit to any specific interest rate path.
15. South Korea’s Ministry of Science, Technology, Information and Communications stated that South Korea plans to launch a US$3.5 billion cutting-edge AI model development project next year.
16. On October 6, local time, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences decided to award the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics to Francis Halzen. A[Philadelphia Semiconductor Index rose 3%] On October 2, US chip stocks rose, and the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index rose 3% to 13222.15 points. ARM rose more than 4%, NXP, Intel, AMD, Applied Materials, and Broadcom rose more than 3%, Nvidia rose 2.8%, Qualcomm rose 2.3%, and TSMC rose 2.2%. B[Huang Renxun, Su Zifeng and others serve as members of the Advisory Committee of Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management] September 29th, the 2026 meeting of the Advisory Committee of Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management will be held in Beijing on October 13th and 14th. This is the 27th annual meeting of the Advisory Committee since its establishment. This year, the advisory committee has 3 new members and 5 new successor members. The three new members are Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia, Lisa Su, chairman and CEO of AMD, and Marc Pictet, senior managing partner of Swiss Pictet Group. The five new successor committee members are BMW Group Chairman Milan Nedeljković, Walmart President and CEO John Furner, Coca-Cola CEO Henrique Braun, General Atlantic Capital Group Co-President and Head of Global Growth Equity Investment Martín Escobari, and BP Group CEO Meg O'Neill. The predecessors of the companies where the above-mentioned five successor members work were all members of the College Advisory Committee, but no longer serve due to job changes. B[U.S. chip stocks generally rose before the market opened] On September 29, most U.S. chip stocks rose before the market opened. As of press time, SK Hynix rose 1.29%, ASML rose 1.49%, Micron Technology rose 1.43%, Broadcom rose 0.41%, Nvidia rose 0.80%, AMD rose 0.68%, SanDisk rose 0.92%, Qualcomm rose 0.61%, and TSMC fell 0.35%. A[Most U.S. chip stocks fell, ARM fell nearly 10%, and the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index fell 3%] On September 28, most U.S. chip stocks fell during the session, with the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index falling 3.00%. In terms of individual stocks, Arm fell 9.77%, Qualcomm fell 7.21%, SanDisk fell 6.52%, SK Hynix fell 6.32%, Intel fell 6.11%, Lumentum fell 6.02%, Western Digital fell 5.21%, AMD fell 5.09%, and Micron Technology fell 4.56%. Nvidia bucked the trend and rose 1.68%, TSMC fell 1.61% and Broadcom fell 1.50%. B[TSMC’s 2nm chip monthly production capacity may reach 120,000 pieces by the end of the year] On September 28, it was reported that sources said that as major customers such as Apple, Nvidia, AMD, Qualcomm and MediaTek increased their orders by 10% to 20%, TSMC is accelerating the expansion of its 2nm production capacity. According to reports, TSMC’s monthly production capacity of 2nm chips may reach 120,000 pieces by the end of the year, higher than the previous market estimate of 90,000 to 100,000 pieces. The accelerated pace of production capacity expansion will enable the production capacity level originally scheduled to be reached in 2027 to be achieved ahead of schedule. A[CPU concept opened sharply higher, China Great Wall and other stocks hit the daily limit] On September 22, the CPU concept opened sharply higher in early trading, China Great Wall, Variety Show Co., Ltd., and Hesheng New Materials hit the daily limit, while Loongson Zhongke, Haiguang Information, and Guoxin Technology rose by more than 5%. On the news, Meta's AI intelligent machine Muse has become popular, boosting market expectations for the growth in demand for server CPUs. Many semiconductor chip stocks such as ARM and Intel have soared by more than 10%; AMD's market value has exceeded US$1 trillion for the first time. A[September 22 morning news selection]
1. At the invitation of President Trump of the United States of America, President Xi Jinping will pay a state visit to the United States from September 23 to 25.
2. The three major U.S. stock indexes collectively closed higher on Monday, with the Nasdaq rising 2.26%, the S&P 500 rising 1.49%, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average rising 0.71%. The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index rose by 4.29%, the largest single-day increase since August 4. ARM rose by more than 17%, Intel rose by more than 12%, Meta rose by more than 11%, and the Meta intelligent Muse topped the free application lists of Google and Apple in the United States; AMD rose by about 10%, with its market value exceeding US$1 trillion for the first time, becoming the fourth US chip company to join the "Trillion Dollar Club"; Qualcomm rose by more than 9%.
3. The Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee held a meeting on September 21. The meeting decided that the fifth plenary session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China will be held in Beijing from October 26th to 29th.
4. The central bank convened a symposium on foreign financial institutions. Pan Gongsheng, governor of the central bank, said that he will continue to promote high-level financial opening up, continue to improve policy supply, steadily expand the two-way opening of the financial market, continue to optimize cross-border payment services, and make it more convenient for the international use of RMB.
5. The Shanghai Stock Exchange issued a notice on the relevant situation of Shengu Group, stating that it will continue to pay close attention to the initial trading of Shengu Group and take self-regulatory measures in accordance with regulations.
6. 2-link Xinhua Wenxuan announced that it plans to acquire 100% equity of Sichuan Ethnic Publishing House for RMB 346 million. Xingshuaier announced that it plans to purchase 100% equity of Xiangying New Materials, a PCB cutting tool equipment company, and the stock will be suspended from trading today.
7. 20CM daily limit Jindan Technology announced that it has not received orders related to polylactic acid.
8. Keda Manufacturing announced that it plans to invest 4.5 billion yuan to build an integrated graphite anode material project with an annual output of 500,000 tons. Galaxy Microelectronics announced that it plans to invest 1.078 billion yuan to build a high-end core device industrialization project. Sunshine Shares announced that its subsidiary plans to purchase servers and supporting equipment for RMB 2.293 billion to provide related services to the outside world.
9. Longsys announced that the repurchase plan has been implemented, with a total transaction amount of approximately 800 million yuan.
10. Yihao New Materials announced that it plans to raise no more than 1.8 billion yuan to acquire no less than 78% of the equity of Mingfeng Electronics. The target company's main business is the research, production and sales of high-performance copper foil.
11. Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited proposed to relax the rules for listed companies to conduct major transactions and spin-offs, aiming to enhance Hong Kong’s attractiveness as a listing place.
12. On Monday, the international crude oil futures settlement price closed sharply lower. WTI crude oil futures October contract fell 4.51%, Brent crude oil futures November contract fell 3.4%. COMEX gold futures fell 0.99% to US$4,381 per ounce; COMEX silver futures fell 0.92% to US$66.53 per ounce.
13. The president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis said that further interest rate hikes may be needed to curb inflation. Chicago Fed President Goolsby said he cannot rule out the possibility that inflation will begin to fall back toward the 2% target, but if that fails, interest rates will need to be raised.
14. Regarding artificial intelligence, U.S. President Trump stated that the United States will remain cautious and restrict AI when necessary, but its overall position is that it will only encourage the development of AI.
15. SpaceXAI officially released the Grok 4.7 model. The Grok 4.7 input token is US$2 per million and the output token is US$6 per million.
16. U.S. Treasury Secretary Bessent blamed the OpenAI management for the Hugging Face incident, saying that the responsibility lies with people, not AI.
17. Russia is reported to be further extending its diesel export ban after it expires in September. Trump reportedly held a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday and asked him to stop attacking Russian oil refineries.
18. U.S. Department of Energy data showed that crude oil inventories in the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve fell to 284.6 million barrels last week, the lowest level since October 1982. A[U.S. stocks closed: The three major indexes opened higher and the Nasdaq rose more than 2%. Many semiconductor chip stocks rose more than 10%] On September 22, U.S. stocks opened higher and the three major indexes collectively closed higher. The Nasdaq rose 2.26%, the S&P 500 rose 1.49%, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.71%. Semiconductor chip stocks rose sharply, with ARM rising by more than 17%, Intel rising by more than 12%, Meta rising by more than 11%, and AMD and Qualcomm rising by more than 9%. Among them, AMD reached a new high, with its market value exceeding US$1 trillion for the first time, becoming the fourth US chip company to join the "Trillion Dollar Club".
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