U.S. premarket news express

U.S. stock index futures for the three major averages are all rising: Dow futures up 0.41%, S&P 500 futures up 0.40%, and Nasdaq futures up 0.73%. Germany's DAX index is up 0.83%, the UK's FTSE 100 is up 0.32%, France's CAC 40 is up 0.27%, and the Euro Stoxx 50 is up 0.82%. WTI crude oil is down 2.42% at $92.32 per barrel. Brent crude oil is down 1.67% at $104.82 per barrel. The Federal Reserve plans to raise the threshold for bank supervision. The Bank of Japan's inflation gauge is accelerating, providing a basis for further rate hikes. The yen is poised for its largest single-day gain in more than two weeks. Akamai is up 21% in U.S. premarket trading after the company signed a $11.6 billion cloud computing agreement with Anthropic. U.S. optical communications stocks are broadly higher in premarket trading: Lumentum up 1.34%, Corning up 1.28%, Coherent up 2.24%, Applied Optoelectronics up 2.06%, Ciena up 1.76%, Broadcom up 1.18%, and Marvell Technology up 1.79%. U.S. memory chip stocks are broadly higher in premarket trading: Micron up 1.12%, SanDisk up 1.97%, SK Hynix up 1.46%, Western Digital up 1.45%, and Seagate Technology up 1.12%.