Pre-market news in U.S. stocks on April 21

Mars Finance News: On April 21, pre-market headlines in the U.S. stock market:

1. The three major U.S. stock index futures all rose. The Dow Jones futures increased by 0.49%, the S&P 500 futures by 0.21%, and the Nasdaq 100 futures by 0.33%.
2. Major European stock indices showed mixed performance. The UK FTSE 100 declined by 0.31%, the French CAC 40 fell by 0.33%, and the German DAX 30 rose by 0.12%.
3. International crude oil prices slightly increased. WTI crude oil futures rose by 0.22%, to $87.610 per barrel; Brent crude oil futures increased by 0.13%, to $95.608 per barrel.
4. International gold and silver futures declined. COMEX gold futures fell by 0.68%, to $4,795.8 per ounce; COMEX silver futures dropped by 1.56%, to $78.79 per ounce.
5. On April 20, local time, Amazon reached a milestone agreement with AI company Anthropic, immediately investing an additional $5 billion, with plans to invest up to another $20 billion after reaching commercial milestones. Amazon had previously invested $8 billion in Anthropic. In exchange, Anthropic committed to purchasing over $100 billion worth of computing resources from Amazon Web Services over the next ten years and deploying Amazon’s self-developed Trainium AI chips at scale.
6. On April 20, local time, Apple CEO Tim Cook announced he will officially step down as CEO on September 1 this year. Apple hardware chief John Ternus was confirmed as his successor. Ternus joined as Vice President of Hardware Engineering in 2013 and became a Senior Vice President in 2021, leading hardware engineering for iPhone, iPad, Mac, AirPods, and other products.
7. BlackBerry subsidiary QNX announced an expansion of its partnership with NVIDIA, allowing developers to build and deploy next-generation safety-critical edge AI systems on NVIDIA IGX Thor.
8. Kevin Waugh will attend the Federal Reserve Chair nomination hearing at 22:00 Beijing time. (KOSG Bao Report)