Societe Generale: Bullish on S&P 500, targets 8,000 points, advises buying on dips.

According to Fortune, Dinari has partnered with stablecoin giant Circle to enable U.S. investors to trade stocks via self-custody wallets for the first time. Dinari’s model replaces the traditional brokerage stack with a wallet-based system, allowing users to instantly fund their accounts using the stablecoin USDC. For decades, buying stocks has meant going through brokers, waiting for trade settlements, and facing limited trading outside market hours. Dinari aims to change this. On Tuesday, the San Mateo, California-based firm, which converts publicly traded stocks into tokens, announced it has tokenized the entire S&P 500 index and is offering these tokenized stocks to U.S. investors.

According to market data from BIT (bit.com), the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index rose over 5%, with SanDisk up around 8%, SK Hynix gaining about 7%, Micron Technology increasing roughly 7%, and Western Digital climbing approximately 5%.

According to market data from BIT (bit.com), US stocks opened with the Dow Jones Industrial Average up 1.17%, the S&P 500 rising 0.4%, and the Nasdaq gaining 0.78%. Palantir (PLTR.N) surged 14.7% after the company significantly lifted its full-year revenue forecast. SpaceX (SPCX.O) and AMD (AMD.O) are scheduled to release their earnings reports post-market, with their shares climbing 2.8% and 3.7% respectively. Micron Technology (MU.O) rose 4%, while Corning (GLW.N) advanced 5.6%.

According to market data from BIT (bit.com), Amazon (AMZN.O) fell 2.07% to a current price of $278.135, and its founder Jeff Bezos intends to sell 15 million shares.

According to NVIDIA’s blog, as the annual Black Hat Security Conference kicks off today in Las Vegas, members of the Open Secure AI Alliance (OSAA) are developing new guidelines to strengthen cybersecurity protections for agent AI. The alliance now has over 120 institutional members. The Linux Foundation today released a draft for comment of the Shared AI Discovery and Exchange (SAFE) Guide, a set of proposed guidelines aimed at turning cybersecurity incidents in the agent AI space into shared protective capabilities for the entire ecosystem. The SAFE Guide was drafted by the Open Secure AI Alliance working group. Alliance members including NVIDIA, Cisco Systems, CrowdStrike, Hugging Face, and Red Hat are collaborating with the Linux Foundation to support the initial proposal. The SAFE Guide includes several recommended measures: confidentially collecting and analyzing AI security incidents and "near-miss events"; notifying affected stakeholders; identifying recurring failures in security controls; and publishing evidence-based operational recommendations to reduce risks across the entire system.

According to Saudi Arabia's Al Arabiya TV, arrangements for the full reopening of the Strait of Hormuz will be announced within hours or tomorrow.