Pre-market news for U.S. stocks on June 23

MarketX News June 23 – Pre-market Highlights:

1. The three major U.S. stock index futures continue to fall. Dow Jones Index futures are down 0.49%, S&P 500 Index futures are down 1.45%, and Nasdaq 100 Index futures are down 2.97%.
2. International oil prices trade lower within the day. WTI crude oil futures fall 0.76%, to $73.299 per barrel; Brent crude oil futures fall 0.79%, to $76.906 per barrel.
3. International gold and silver spot prices decline across the board. Spot gold falls 1.69%, to $4,120.27 per ounce; spot silver falls 4.67%, to $62.02 per ounce.
4. Major European stock indices fall across the board. The FTSE 100 index in the UK is down 0.33%, the French CAC 40 index is down 0.70%, and Germany’s DAX 30 index is down 0.91%.
5. South Korea’s Kospi index closes down 9.99% today, the largest single-day drop since March 4; Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix both fall by more than 12%.
6. Goldman Sachs warns: once any major technology giant cuts AI spending first, the AI sector will be re-priced.
7. SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son is not optimistic about Elon Musk’s space data centers, saying that the deciding factor in the AI race is ground-based computing power.
8. Data provider Ornn from New York shows that since the end of May, the hourly rental price of Nvidia’s B200 chips has continued to decline, and it has already dropped to $4.22 as of last weekend.
9. Supply chain reports indicate that Tesla is accelerating its plan for large-scale mass production of its humanoid robots. Production is expected to be rolled out simultaneously in California and Texas, with the mass-production schedule set to start in the second half of 2026 through 2027.
10. Micron Technology announced on Monday local time that it has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Anthropic, covering memory and storage product supply and AI architecture design research.
11. SpaceX’s pre-market losses narrow to around 1.8%, after having at one point fallen nearly 5%. Over the past three trading days, SpaceX’s cumulative decline is about 23%, with its market value having evaporated by more than $6,000 billion. Tonight, it may fall below $2 trillion.
12. Microsoft and Chevron sign a 20-year power supply agreement to lock in long-term electricity supply for AI data centers. (Ke Gu Bao broadcast)