(Updated with Apple, Truist and Futures)
PARIS, September 15 (Reuters) – Main stocks to follow on Friday on Wall Street, where futures contracts on the main indices suggest an opening down 0.03% for the Dow Jones and 0.13% for Standard & Poor’s 500 and 0.3% for the Nasdaq.
* FORD MOTOR and GENERAL MOTORS lost 1% and 0.4% respectively in pre-market trading due to a simultaneous strike, called by the United Auto Workers (UAW) union, in several factories of American automobile manufacturers.
* APPLE – The National Frequency Agency (ANFR), which asked Apple on Tuesday to withdraw its iPhone 12 from the French market following an excess of the specific absorption rate (DAS) limit observed on this model , is preparing to quickly test an update on the iPhone 12 which would ultimately make it possible to lift the withdrawal of the marketing of the device, the Minister Delegate in charge of Digital, Jean-Noël Barrot, announced on Friday.
* NORTHROP GRUMMAN, LOCKHEED MARTIN – China will impose sanctions against the two American defense and aerospace groups for having supplied weapons to Taiwan, the Chinese Foreign Ministry announced on Friday.
* APPLIED MATERIALS, LAM RESEARCH and KLA CORP each fell almost 2% in pre-market trading after Reuters reported that the Taiwanese group TSMC, the world’s leading chip manufacturer, had asked its suppliers to delay the delivery of processing equipment. high-end chip manufacturing.
* ARM HOLDINGS is still up 8.7% in pre-market trading the day after its stock market debut on the Nasdaq which saw the stock jump 25% compared to the indicative price of its IPO. Needham also begins monitoring the value to be “conserved”.
* NEUMORA THERAPEUTICS, a company also supported by the Japanese conglomerate Softbank, parent company of Arm, is making its stock market debut in New York this Friday, after having raised $250 million for its IPO.
* TRUIST loses 1.4% in pre-market trading after Piper Sandler downgraded its recommendation from “overweight” to “neutral”.
(Written by Claude Chendjou and Diana Mandiá, edited by Blandine Hénault)
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