Pre-market news briefing for US stocks

① U.S. stock index futures are all up: Dow futures rose 0.15%, S&P 500 futures rose 0.30%, and Nasdaq futures rose 0.46%.

② European stock market indices showed mixed results: Germany's DAX30 fell 20%, France's CAC40 fell 0.50%, Europe's Stoxx 50 fell 0.30%, while the UK's FTSE 100 rose 0.01%.

③ The U.S. September CPI report will be released tonight at 8:30 PM Beijing time, with the market expecting a month-on-month CPI increase of 0.4% and a year-on-year increase of 3.1%, while core CPI is expected to rise 0.3% month-on-month and 3.1% year-on-year.

④ BlackRock believes that tonight's CPI data will not change the outcome of the Federal Reserve's FOMC meeting next Wednesday, expecting the Fed to focus on the weak labor market and lean towards interest rate cuts. The CME FedWatch tool shows a 96.7% probability of a 25 basis point rate cut in October.

⑤ The reserves of the U.S. banking system have fallen below $3 trillion, and strategists at JPMorgan and Bank of America expect the Fed to stop reducing its approximately $6.6 trillion balance sheet this month.

⑥ Google and Anthropic have reached a $10 billion chip deal, with Google supplying up to 1 million TPU dedicated AI chips to Anthropic, which will train and deploy the next generation of Claude models based on the Google Cloud platform.

⑦ Intel's pre-market shares rose over 7% after reporting Q3 revenue of $13.7 billion, a year-on-year increase of 3%, marking the first positive year-on-year growth in a year and a half. The adjusted earnings per share were 23 cents, far exceeding the market expectation of 1 cent. Company executives stated that the chip shortage will continue into next year.

⑧ The European Union has officially accused Meta of violating the Digital Services Act, claiming that there are issues with its mechanisms for handling illegal content on Facebook and Instagram. This is the first time the EU has initiated charges against a social media platform under the DSA, with potential fines of up to 6% of global annual revenue for violations.

⑨ JPMorgan will allow institutional clients to use Bitcoin and Ethereum as collateral for loans by the end of the year, marking the formal integration of cryptocurrencies into the mainstream financial system