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Investing.com -- U.S. stock futures edged higher Thursday, as investors awaited key economic data while assessing the relative calm in the Middle East.
Here are some of the biggest premarket U.S. stock movers today:
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Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) stock rose 1.2% after scaling a fresh all-time high in the previous session as the chipmaker’s CEO Jensen Huang said other than artificial intelligence, robotics represents the company’s biggest market for potential growth.
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Walgreens Boots Alliance (NASDAQ:WBA) stock rose 0.3% after the second-largest U.S. pharmacy chain beat expectations for third-quarter profit, as store closures and cost-cutting aided turnaround efforts.
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Micron (NASDAQ:MU) stock rose 2% after the memory chip maker forecast fourth-quarter revenue above estimates on Wednesday on robust demand for its high-bandwidth memory chips used in artificial intelligence data centers.
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McCormick (NYSE:MKC) stock rose 4.9% after the spices retailer reported better-than-anticipated profit in its fiscal second quarter and backed its full-year outlook thanks to plans to mitigate the impact of tariff-related headwinds.
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Palantir (NASDAQ:PLTR) stock rose 1.2% after the data analytics company said it was teaming up with a nuclear deployment company to develop an artificial intelligence-driven software system built for the construction of nuclear reactors.
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Nike (NYSE:NKE) stock rose 0.4%, with the sportswear giant scheduled to release its quarterly results later in the session.
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Shell (NYSE:SHEL) ADRs rose 2.5% after the oil major denied it was planning a takeover of rival BP (NYSE:BP), following a Wall Street Journal report that claimed it was in discussions.
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HB Fuller (NYSE:FUL) stock soared 9.9% after the adhesive manufacturer company forecast full-year profit above Wall Street estimates, following a mixed quarterly print.
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Kratos Defense & Security Solutions (NASDAQ:KTOS) stock slumped 6.9% after the IT security company announced plans for an underwritten public offering of $500 million of its common stock.