Nebius Group N.V.

Nebius shares soared nearly 15% before the opening of the main session in New York

Nebius has been awarded one of Meta's largest AI capacity contracts ever 

Dollar Tree Inc. R

NVIDIA Corporation

Meta Platforms, Inc.

Micron Technology, Inc.

Blue Owl Capital Inc.

Daily review and forecast of events on the U.S. stock market from Mikhail Denislamov, Deputy Director of Freedom Capital Markets Research.

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Cryptocurrency tested the $74,000 mark amid geopolitical tensions and ETF inflows

Bitcoin is up nearly 4%. Why not all crypto traders see reason for optimism

Sandvik AB

War in Iran catalyzes tungsten price growth

"The market has never seen such a shortage": metal for drones and missiles overtakes gold in growth

Hua Hong Semiconductor Limited

JD.com, Inc.

Amazon.com, Inc.

Dubai has suspended operations at its main international airport after a drone strike caused a fire at a fuel tank near the terminal. US President Donald Trump said he is "demanding" that other countries contribute to the defense of the Strait of Hormuz. China's Hua Hong has developed 7nm chip manufacturing technology with Huawei, becoming the second company in the country after SMIC with such capabilities. These and other topics are in our review of key events on the morning of March 16.

Main by morning: Dubai airport halted operations, Trump awaits help in defending the strait

FedEx Corporation

Oil prices have soared more than 40% since the start of the Iranian crisis: on the morning of March 16, <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/@LCO.1">Brent</a> futures are trading near $105 and <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/@CL.1">WTI</a> futures are trading around $100 per barrel. This macroeconomic environment complicates the task of the US Federal Reserve, which will have to make a decision on the interest rate this week.

Fed rate, oil price and Micron report: what investors need to know this week

Oil prices rose and U.S. stocks were down slightly in early trading Monday.

Brent rises, stock futures fall: what's happening on the markets after the weekend

Palantir Technologies Inc.

American technology billionaire, co-founder of PayPal and Palantir Peter Thiel will hold a series of private lectures on the Antichrist in Rome starting Sunday, March 15, <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/fc1e7e9a-9d5d-4217-b9b2-38069eb1197b">wrote the</a> Financial Times. Information about these events is kept secret - not even the venue is disclosed. Recording of the lectures is forbidden, and some invitees are asked to sign a non-disclosure agreement, the edition writes with reference to the organizers.

The founder of Palantir came to Rome to give secret lectures on the Antichrist

PayPay Corporation

Tesla, Inc.

Billionaire Bill Ackman has decided to launch his investment fund's IPO in the US under a "buy five shares, sixth one free" scheme. Tesla converted its investment in xAI into a small stake in SpaceX ahead of the largest listing in history. Hong Kong exchange offered to publicly shame professionals who failed to prepare documents for the initial public offering. The main events on the IPO market for the week - in our selection.

Ackman's dual listing, SpaceX and the "board of shame" in Hong Kong: What's important about IPOs by March 15

Bahrain-based Aluminium Bahrain (Alba) has begun cutting production at the world's largest single-site smelter due to the blockage of the Strait of Hormuz, Bloomberg <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-15/bahrain-starts-cutting-output-at-world-s-top-aluminum-smelter">reported.</a>

The world's largest aluminum smelter has begun cutting production because of the war in Iran

Knowledge Atlas Technology Joint Stock Company Limited

Minimax-wp

Alibaba Group Holding Limited

Tencent Holdings Limited

Baidu, Inc.

SenseTime Group Inc.

iFLYTEK CO.,LTD

A few years ago, the actions of Chinese AI developers were perceived as an attempt to catch up with American competitors. But now it is already a separate center of power: according to the latest data from Stanford University, China <a href="https://hai.stanford.edu/assets/files/hai_ai_index_report_2025.pdf">ranks</a> first in terms of the citation rate of AI publications. Beijing's official goal is to <a href="https://www.morganstanley.com/insights/articles/china-ai-becoming-global-leader">become the</a> world leader in AI by 2030. Roman Lukyanchikov, analyst at Freedom Broker, has written about how investors can bet on the growth of the Chinese AI sector.

China wants to become a leader in AI and is willing to spend billions. How to capitalize on it

According to a veteran commodity trader, during such periods you can lose a million dollars in two seconds if you don't watch the market closely 