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What stands out

A Reuters report that SK Hynix is in talks with Intel to make memory chips in the United States sent Intel to the premarket spotlight, even as SK Hynix publicly said no decisions were made. At the same time, the Senate's failure to advance the so-called clarity act knocked Bitcoin and crypto stocks lower, with Coinbase among the biggest losers. The clip bundles two market forces, geopolitically driven supply-chain moves for semiconductors and binary regulatory risk for crypto, into a single morning of outsized price action.