Pre-Market U.S. Stock News Roundup: Micron Under ITC Investigation, Google Set to Release Flagship AI Model Gemini 4

PANews, September 24 — Ahead of the U.S. stock market open, here are the key market and financial news items investors should focus on:

1. All three major U.S. stock index futures fell. Dow Jones futures fell 0.32%, S&P 500 futures fell 0.59%, and Nasdaq 100 futures fell 1.07%.

2. International oil prices rose across the board. WTI crude futures rose 1.95% to $93.961 per barrel; Brent crude futures rose 1.91% to $99.994 per barrel.

3. Both spot gold and silver fell. Spot gold fell 0.43% to $4,268.67 per ounce; spot silver fell 1.37% to $63.54 per ounce.

4. Europe's three major stock indexes were mixed. The UK's FTSE 100 rose 0.12%, France's CAC 40 fell 0.20%, and Germany's DAX 30 fell 0.21%.

5. The U.S. 30-year Treasury yield rose to 5.435%, a new high since 2004; the 10-year Treasury yield climbed to 5.14%, the highest level since 2007.

6. New York Fed President John Williams, the Fed's "third in command," said inflation needs to be brought back to target in a timely manner, and that another rate hike before the end of this year would be reasonable.

7. The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) has formally launched a Section 337 investigation into dynamic random access memory (DRAM) devices and their downstream products and components (III), with Micron Technology and others named as respondents.

8. Qualcomm announced it has renewed its global patent license agreement with Apple, effective April 1, 2027.

9. The head of Google DeepMind said Google is about to release its latest flagship model, Gemini 4. Gemini 4 is in the early stages of the "post-training" development phase and is expected to be released "well before" the end of this year.

10. A user discovered the undisclosed design of the third-generation Optimus humanoid robot by unlocking Tesla's Android app package. The images show that the third-generation Optimus robot appears to be designed for factory assembly lines rather than laboratories.

11. Corning announced it will expand production capacity of its Polarcor™ glass polarizers to meet growing demand from AI data centers and computing applications.

12. Meta released the handheld AI device Muse Charm, equipped with an approximately 2-inch OLED touchscreen and a 5G modem, running a new operating system designed specifically for the Muse AI assistant, and is expected to hit the market before December.