Stock futures were rising on Monday after the Iran war entered its second month.
These stocks were making moves in premarket trading:
Nvidia added 1% after French artificial-intelligence startup Mistral AI said it had raised $830 million in debt to fund a data center powered by 13,800 of the chip maker's Blackwell graphics processing units.
Eli Lilly climbed 0.5% after InSilico Medicine said on Sunday that it had signed a drug discovery deal with the pharma giant. InSilico's Hong Kong-listed shares closed 2.6% higher.
Alcoa jumped 8.2% after two aluminum makers in the Middle East reported that they had been hit by Iranian attacks, fueling fears that supply of the base metal could be disrupted by the ongoing conflict.
Crypto exchange Coinbase rose 2.2%, online trading platform Robinhood advanced 1.9%, and Bitcoin investor Strategy gained 2%. The moves higher came as digital-asset prices staged a cautious recovery, having struggled over the past month due to the war in Iran sparking a pivot away from risk assets. Strategy reports its weekly Bitcoin purchases on Mondays.
Bicara Therapeutics, Sigma Lithium, and Progress Software are all set to report earnings on Monday.
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