Episode 2026-06-03

You're listening to 7 Horns AI — your AI-powered market update. Good morning and welcome to your pre-market preview for Wednesday, June three, twenty twenty-six. Overnight, Asian markets provided a mixed picture. Japan continued its remarkable run, with the Nikkei two hundred twenty-five surging two point five percent to sixty-eight thousand four hundred one, hitting a new all-time high, largely driven by semiconductor stocks. This positive momentum is reflected in the EWJ proxy, which is showing about a one percent gain in pre-market. However, China and Hong Kong saw diverging signals. While the Shanghai C S I three hundred gained about one point five percent, the Hang Seng Index in Hong Kong fell one point six percent to twenty-five thousand six hundred thirty-three, indicating some profit-taking after its previous session's surge. Hang Seng futures are also trading lower, confirming continued softness, and the FXI proxy is down about one point four percent in pre-market. Looking at US futures this morning, they are largely quiet. S&P five hundred futures are essentially flat, down about one-tenth of a percent, and Nasdaq one hundred futures are also effectively flat, up about one-tenth of a percent. The Dow futures are showing a slight weakness, down about four-tenths of a percent, the only modestly directional signal ahead of the open, perhaps giving back some of yesterday's gains where it outperformed. Developed international markets, as indicated by the EFA proxy, ar