[Yesterday's Review]

The three major indices opened lower and closed higher. The Dow rose 0.16%; the S&P 500 rose 0.73%; the Nasdaq rose 0.98%.
Most large-cap tech stocks rose. NVIDIA rose 3.69%; Meta rose 2.49%; Tesla rose 2.27%; Google Class C rose 1.57%; Apple rose 0.31%, hitting a new high; Amazon rose 0.06%; Microsoft fell 0.31%.

Semiconductor stocks generally rose. The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index rose 3.01%, with only three of its 30 components closing lower. GlobalFoundries rose 5.54%, Broadcom rose 5.52%, TSMC rose 5.15%, AMD rose 4.52%. Arm Holdings fell 4%, and Qualcomm scored a key victory in the Arm chip lawsuit.
Most popular Chinese stocks rose. ZEEKR rose 10.53%; Alibaba rose 3.48%; Li Auto rose 2.33%; JD.com rose 1.82%; XPeng rose 1.34%; Pinduoduo rose 1.08%; Nio fell 1.32%;

[Pre-Market News]

Recently, downloads of Meta smart glasses-related apps have exploded. Sensor Tower's app download data shows that downloads of the Meta View companion app increased by over 200% year-over-year in October.

NVIDIA founder Jensen Huang recently announced that he will deliver a keynote speech at CES 2025 on January 6 at 18:30 Pacific Time, or January 7 at 10:30 Beijing Time. The RTX 5000 series GPU will be the highlight of the keynote.

The Nasdaq 100 index rebalanced, with Tesla, Meta, and Broadcom seeing reduced weightings, while Apple, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Google saw increased weightings in the Nasdaq 100 index.

Starbucks (SBUX.O) union stated that the strike at U.S. Starbucks stores will expand to over 300 locations on Tuesday, with more than 5,000 workers expected to participate. The strike is expected to continue expanding before ending late on Christmas Eve after a five-day strike.

Netflix has filed a lawsuit against Broadcom in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, alleging that Broadcom's VMware vSphere virtualization platform infringes on five of Netflix's patents related to virtual machine communication.

Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. has applied to register multiple trademarks for "YuanbaoAi" and "Tencent Yuanbao" in categories including education and entertainment, social services, and scientific instruments. The current status of these trademarks is pending substantive examination.

[Pre-Market Highlights]

Large-cap tech stocks generally rose pre-market. Broadcom rose 2.03%; Tesla rose 1.24%; Meta rose 0.61%; Google rose 0.34%; NVIDIA rose 0.21%; Amazon rose 0.13%; Apple rose 0.05%; Microsoft fell 0.16%; TSMC fell 0.82%;

Quantum computing stocks generally fell. Quantum Computing fell 3.72%; Rigetti Computing fell 6.11%; IonQ Inc rose 0.68%; Rumble fell 5.45%; D-Wave Quantum rose 0.37%; SEALSQ Corp rose 35.31%; MARA Holdings fell 0.31%; Quantum Corp fell 5.8%;
Bitcoin-related stocks: MSTR rose 0.02%; iShares Bitcoin ETF rose 1.12%;
Healthcare: RXRX rose 1.43%; HIMS rose 1.16%; Novo Nordisk rose 0.33%; AstraZeneca fell 0.59%; Johnson & Johnson rose 0.41%;
Other hot stocks: AMD rose 1.28%; Marvell Technology rose 0.76%; Palantir fell 0.76%; SoundHound AI fell 1.81%; ASML fell 0.96%; IBM Corp rose 1.27%; Cigna fell 2.0%; Humana fell 1.42%; Microchip Technology rose 1.28%; Stryker rose 1.42%; Synopsys rose 1.2%; Reliance Global Group fell 11.9%; Rocket Lab fell 1.76%; Royal Bank of Canada rose 1.22%; Raytheon Technologies fell 0.97%; CME Group rose 1%; Duke Energy fell 0.6%; Thomson Reuters rose 2.97%;
Chinese stocks generally rose. Alibaba rose 1.34%; Pinduoduo rose 0.88%; JD.com rose 0.91%; Chunghwa Telecom rose 0.93%; BeiGene rose 1.59%; Baidu rose 0.47%; Nio rose 0.83%; Futu Holdings rose 0.89%; Li Auto rose 0.8%; Bilibili rose 1.04%; ZTO Express rose 1.41%; UP Fintech rose 1.66%; Kingsoft Cloud fell 3.87%;