During overnight trading on Monday, Accenture PLC rose 6.71%. The stock rallied after it announced a partnership with Anthropic to build an embedded AI safety evaluation team, with both committing at least $1 billion each over five years.
Warner Bros. Discovery climbed 5.32%. Shares advanced on reports settlement talks with Paramount Skydance over a proposed $110 billion merger have reached late stages, alongside key regulatory approvals.
Chip stocks rose, with Intel rising 4%, ARM Holdings rising 3.10%, Direxion Daily Semiconductors Bull 3x Shares (SOXL) rising 2.65%, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) rising 1.51%, Applied Materials (AMAT) rising 1.15%.
Among other individual movers, CRITICAL METALS CORPORATION surged 34.92%, USA Rare Earth Inc. (USAR) jumped 2.47%, AXT Inc rose 2.20%, Applied Optoelectronics (AAOI) gained 2.08%, Meta Platforms, Inc. (META) advanced 1.42%, Roundhill Memory ETF (DRAM) added 1.39%, SanDisk Corp. rose 1.04%.