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JB Hunt dropped after a blunt warning that higher fuel bills and the cost of recruiting and training drivers will knock third quarter earnings down 5 to 10 percent versus the prior quarter, with at least $10 million in extra fuel expense. At the same time Intel jumped about 3.5 percent in premarket trade on reports that SK Hynix is in talks to make memory chips in the United States, and Bloom Energy popped after buyers stepped in to buy the dip. Those three moves capture a useful cross-section of market forces: inflation in transportation, slow-moving industrial reshoring, and the reflexive dip-buying behavior that amplifies short-term price swings.