Pre-market news summary for US stocks

① The three major U.S. stock index futures are mixed: Dow futures are down 0.18%, S&P 500 futures are up 0.32%, and Nasdaq futures are up 0.31%.

② European stock market indices are all up: Germany's DAX 30 is up 0.09%, France's CAC 40 is up 0.43%, Europe's Stoxx 50 is up 0.24%, and the UK's FTSE 100 is up 0.14%.

③ The U.S. August PPI data will be released tonight, with economists expecting the annual rate to remain unchanged at 3.3% and the core PPI annual rate to drop to 3.5%.

④ U.S. stocks continue to hit new highs, and Wall Street analysts are rushing to raise their outlook for the S&P 500 index, with some predicting it could rise to around 7,000 points by the end of the year or early next year, expecting profit and return rates to expand from 2025 to 2026.

⑤ The U.S. Labor Department's preliminary revision of employment data shows that the previous report overestimated by 911,000, reinforcing expectations for interest rate cuts, with gold prices briefly breaking through $3,674 per ounce to set a new historical high.

⑥ Morgan Stanley maintains an "overweight" rating on Tesla, with a target price of $410, believing that Tesla has transformed into an AI-robotics platform company, expecting to deploy 2,000 robot taxis in the U.S. by the end of 2026, covering 5-10 cities.

⑦ TSMC's August revenue grew 34% year-on-year to NT$335.8 billion, with cumulative revenue from January to August increasing by 37.1%, confirming the continued strong demand for AI chips.

⑧ It is reported that Microsoft plans to introduce some AI technologies from Anthropic into the Office 365 applications to replace some technologies from OpenAI, thereby breaking OpenAI's monopoly within Microsoft.

⑨ Oracle surged over 31% before the market opened due to a significant increase in Q1 business bookings and an upward revision of its cloud infrastructure revenue guidance, holding over $500 billion in remaining performance obligations, with a market value expected to reach $870 billion, moving towards the top ten in U.S. stock market capitalization