Investors are waiting for the Federal Reserve's interest rate meeting scheduled for this week, and the three major U.S. stock indexes rose generally on Monday. The S&P 500 Index opened up 12 points or 0.2%, reporting at 6,063 points; the Dow opened down 2 points, reporting at 43,825 points; the Nasdaq opened up 89 points or 0.5%, reporting at 20,016 points, with early gains expanding to 120 points or 0.6%.
Bitcoin whale MicroStrategy (MSTR.US) was included in the NASDAQ 100 Index, rising about 4%. Similarly, component stocks Palantir (PLTR.US) and Axon (AXON.US) fell against the trend by about 3% to 4%.
Super Micro Computer (SMCI.US) is reported to be considering raising equity and debt, and the stock fell 11% in early trading.
NVIDIA (NVDA.US) fell over 1%; Tesla (TSLA.US) rose 0.4%.