On this episode of Stock Movers:
- Nickel touched a fresh 19-month high in choppy trading as traders weighed rising inventories against mounting production risks that have fueled a breakneck rally in prices. Copper will rally to $14,000 a ton within the coming three months amid bullish momentum, but could peak this month unless fresh catalysts emerge, according to Citigroup. Rare earth-related shares gained across the Asia-Pacific region after China imposed a ban on exports of military-use items to Japan. Meantime, precious metals miners and royalty companies are down in US premarket trading as gold and silver pull back with broader markets as traders look to upcoming US economic data later this week.
- Shares of Ventyx Biosciences Inc. (VTYX) were up as much as 67% in early US trading after the Wall Street Journal reported that Eli Lilly & Co. is in advanced talks to acquire the company for more than $1 billion to expand its work in immunology.
- Shares of Michael Saylor's Strategy (MSTR) climbed ahead of the US market open after MSCI decided for now to keep digital asset treasury companies in its stock market indexes. Back in October, MSCI proposed excluding those companies from its indexes, but now says companies already included in indexes will remain eligible if they meet existing index requirements.

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