Premarket movers
Mag 7 names are mostly higher (Meta 1.4%, Tesla 1.3%, Amazon 0.7%, Alphabet 0.5%, Nvidia 0.3%, Microsoft is unchanged, Apple -0.6%).
Chipmakers and other AI-related firms rise ahead of Samsung’s June quarter earnings and updates to SK Hynix Inc.’s massive ADR listing.
Alibaba ADRs (BABA) inch about 1% higher after a federal judge ordered the Pentagon to give the company a reprieve from a law that caused all of its lobbyists to drop it as a client.
Datadog (DDOG) falls 2.4% after Bernstein downgraded the software company to market perform, citing caution about the company’s earnings prospects.
JB Hunt (JBHT) slips 1% after Morgan Stanley cut the recommendation on the freight carrier to underweight, saying the stock’s valuation is “unjustifiable” after a rally.
Kosmos Energy (KOS) rises 4% after the firm provided updated guidance with second-quarter production at its Jubilee oil field in Ghana reaching about 72,000 barrels of oil per day.
Opus Genetics (IRD) rises 2% after saying it reached alignment with the FDA on the design of its Phase 3 trial evaluating OPGx-LCA5 for LCA5-associated inherited retinal disease.
Seer (SEER) climbs 33% after CEO Omid Farokhzad offered to buy the a biotechnology company.
Zim Integrated’s US shares (ZIM) are down 6% after Ynet reported Sunday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said a proposed sale was “not on the agenda,” without clarifying how it got the information.
(Source BBG)