Top Rising Stocks in the US Market Today: A Brief Overview and Reasons for Surge

✍ This is a brief overview of the top-performing stocks in the US stock market based on the day-to-day price changes, and a summary of the characteristics and reasons (if any) for the sharp rise in large-cap stocks belonging to the S&P 500 index.

If there is an overlap between the top-performing stocks among all listed stocks and the top-performing stocks among the S&P 500 large-cap stocks, the relevant content may be intentionally duplicated in both lists to consider those who only view each case individually.

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❝Trading Date: 2024.10.16(Wed)

❙ Top-Performing Stocks in the US Stock Market (Overall)

1. ATNF (180 Life Sciences)

➥ Business Overview: An operating clinical-stage biotechnology company that leverages the combined expertise of luminaries in the therapeutic field from Oxford University, Hebrew University, and Stanford University to develop new drugs addressing unmet needs in inflammatory diseases, fibrosis, and pain.

➥ Reason for Surge: Announcement of plans to operate a B2C casino.

➥ Daily Chart

2. VS (Versus Systems)

➥ Business Overview: Development of business-to-business video game support software.

➥ Reason for Surge: Signing of investment and licensing agreements with Aspice Cyber Tech for gamification technology.

➥ Daily Chart

3. PRQR (ProQR Therapeutics)

➥ Business Overview: A clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company discovering and developing RNA-based therapies for the treatment of severe inherited rare diseases, focusing on inherited retinal diseases.

➥ Reason for Surge: No specific issues.

➥ Daily Chart

4. SMR (NewScale Power, 뉴스케일 파워) ★Characteristic Stock

➥ Business Overview: Provides proprietary and innovative advanced small modular reactor (SMR) nuclear technology. Key products include the VOYGR SMR plant and the Energy Exploration (E2) Center.

➥ Reason for Surge: Recently, following MS and Google, Amazon has also promoted the development of small modular reactors (SMRs) with Dominion Energy, a nuclear energy company, to meet the power demands of artificial intelligence, which has become an issue and caused a surge.

➥ Daily Chart