Pre-market US Stock Snapshot: SpaceX reportedly places massive AI server order; Anthropic reportedly tests AMD's AI GPUs

2026-07-20 12:38

Odaily Odaily reports that ahead of the US stock market open, investors need to pay close attention to the following key financial news:

1. The three major US stock index futures are moderately higher. Dow Jones futures rose 0.26%, S&P 500 futures rose 0.45%, and Nasdaq 100 futures rose 0.92%.

2. International oil prices edged higher. WTI crude oil futures rose 0.08% to $81.843 per barrel; Brent crude oil futures rose 0.28% to $88.345 per barrel. On the news front, the Houthi group announced a "maritime navigation ban" on Saudi Arabia.

3. International gold and silver spot prices were mixed. Spot gold fell 0.12% to $4,011.46 per ounce; spot silver rose 1.75% to $56.86 per ounce.

4. Europe's three major stock indices were mixed. The UK's FTSE 100 fell 0.29%, France's CAC 40 rose 0.29%, and Germany's DAX 30 rose 0.24%.

5. SpaceX plans to order approximately 13,000 racks of NVIDIA GB300 AI servers from Hon Hai (Foxconn), with the transaction scale potentially reaching $52 billion. Hon Hai is expected to start shipping in Q4 of this year.

6. JPMorgan states that it is "too early" to reflect the inflection point of semiconductor prices in the market and expects earnings growth to drive a rebound in the US chip stock sector.

7. Semiconductor research firm SemiAnalysis indicates that by analyzing GitHub code published by AMD executives, Anthropic may become a customer for its AI GPUs, with signs of collaboration appearing in the public code.

8. US stock optical communication and memory sectors are rising in pre-market trading. Lumentum is up over 3%, Coherent and Corning are up over 2%; SK Hynix, Micron Technology, and SanDisk are up over 4%.