Israel Defense Forces says it will strike suburbs of Beirut if HEZBOLLAH continues to carry out attacks.

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu ordered the Israel Defense Forces to strike targets in Beirut's southern suburbs.

US stocks opened lower on fresh Middle East developments: Dow -0.3%, S&P 500 -0.2%, Nasdaq -0.19%. NVIDIA (NVDA.O) rose 2.7% and Microsoft (MSFT.O) gained 3% after the pair unveiled an Arm‑architecture RTX Spark PC chip; NVIDIA said it is entering the PC CPU market. Arm (ARM.O) jumped 8.8%, Intel (INTC.O) fell 6.6%. Storage names rallied: Micron Technology (MU.O) gained over 5%, its share price topped $1,000, and SanDisk (SNDK.O) rose 3.4%.