US briefings — Thursday, July 9, 2026

US Pre-Market, July 9: Nasdaq Futures Up 0.86% on a Memory Rally as a Starbucks Software Plan Hits IBM

Nasdaq 100 futures trade +0.86% against Dow futures -0.02% before the 9 July 2026 US open, as a memory and storage rally runs into an enterprise software selloff. Seagate STX.US +6.97%, Western Digital WDC.US +6.89% and Micron MU.US +6.54% lead pre-market gains with SK Hynix's Nasdaq ADR book more than 7 times oversubscribed. Ionis IONS.US -19.11% and AstraZeneca AZN.US -7.66% after their Phase 3 heart trial missed its primary endpoint. Initial jobless claims print at 8:30am ET against a 218,000 consensus.