-- Technology stocks were higher pre-bell Thursday, with the State Street Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLK) advancing 0.1% and the State Street SPDR S&P Semiconductor ETF (XSD) 0.5% higher.
Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL) shares gained by 1.2% before the opening bell after closing the prior session with a 2.8% increase. Bloomberg reported Thursday that Google has proposed changes to how it shows news results in its search engine to avoid further EU competition fines.
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) stock was down 1.8% pre-bell after closing the prior session with a 18.6% rise. The company overnight posted stronger-than-expected fiscal Q1 results and issued an upbeat Q2 revenue outlook.
ARM (ARM) shares fell over 7% in premarket activity after CEO Rene Haas said, in an earnings call with investors, that while demand for ARM's new AGI CPU doubled to $2 billion within six weeks of its launch, the company has only secured enough manufacturing capacity to fulfill half of those orders.