
NVDA OpenAI Investment, MU Earnings, Powell Speaks
Thomas White
Co-HostU.S. stock futures are relatively flat in premarket trading after settling at more record highs. The benchmark S&P 500 (SPX), Nasdaq-100 (NDX) and Dow Index ($DJI) are at all-time highs.
Stocks were initially weak on Monday before turning positive after Nvidia (NVDA) shares jumped nearly 4% higher on the back of an announcement from the chipmaker that it will invest $100 billion in OpenAI for the buildout of data centers.
Investors will watch PMI data today along with more Fedspeak, including comments from Fed Chair Powell this afternoon at a conference in Rhode Island.
Snapshot (as of 7 AM ET)
- Oil (/CL) – Oil prices are up 1.1% at $63 a barrel even as investors weighed the global supply outlook after Iraq and Kurdish regional governments reached a preliminary agreement to restart an oil pipeline.
- Gold (/GC) – Gold futures are up 1% near $3815, another fresh record high, bolstered by increased expectations of further U.S. rate cuts, as investors awaited Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s speech later in the day for further policy cues.
- Bitcoin (/BTC) – The Crypto Future is up 0.8% near 113,000 in premarket trading.
- VIX – The CBOE Volatility Index was up 4.2% on Monday and settled at 16.10 despite a rise in stocks to more record highs.
- U.S. Dollar (/DX) – The dollar is flat at just below 97.
Biggest Premarket Movers (Mark % Change as of 7 AM ET)
- Kenvue (KVUE): +4.60%
- Boeing (BA): +2.32%
- Palantir (PLTR): +1.41%
- AutoZone (AZO): -2.09%
- Vistra (VST): -2.03%
- Regeneron (REGN): -1.79%
Economic Data
- 9:00AM ET: Fed’s Bowman Speaks
- 9:45AM ET: PMI Composite
- 9:50AM ET: Trump Addresses U.N.
- 10:00AM ET: Fed’s Bostic Speaks, Richmond Fed Mfg. Index
- 12:35PM ET: Fed’s Powell Speaks
- 1:00PM ET: 2-Year Note Auction
Notable Earnings
- Premarket: AZO
- Postmarket: AIR, MU, MLKN, WOR
- Premarket Tomorrow: CTAS, THO, UEC
- Postmarket Tomorrow: FUL, KBH, SCS, SFIX, WS
Upgrades/Downgrades
- Guggenheim upgrades Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) to Buy from Neutral
- Wells Fargo upgrades CoreWeave (CRWV) to Overweight from Equal Weight
- Bernstein upgrades United Rentals (URI) to Outperform from Market Perform
- Jefferies downgrades Vistra (VST) to Hold from Buy
- KeyBanc downgrades Lam Research (LRCX) to Sector Weight from Overweight
- Baird downgrades Lululemon (LULU) to Neutral from Outperform
