** Shares of semiconductor connectivity firm Astera Labs
ALAB.O rise 4% to $382 and cloud infrastructure company
CoreWeave CRWV.O advances 3.8% to $99.4 in premarket trading
** AI infrastructure firm Nebius Group NBIS.O gains 5.3%
to $234 and chip testing equipment maker Teradyne TER.O rises
nearly 1% to $385
** Space services firm Rocket Lab RKLB.O also rises 7.4%
to $123; broader space-related companies climb ahead of the
market debut of Elon Musk's rockets-to-AI company SpaceX
SPCX.O on Friday
** All five companies set to join Nasdaq-100 Index .NDX ,
effective before markets open on June 22, index operator Nasdaq
says
** Broadband and cable TV provider Charter Communications
CHTR.O , IT consulting firm Cognizant Technology Solutions
CTSH.O , drugmaker Insmed INSM.O , data and analytics tools
provider Verisk Analytics VRSK.O and cloud security firm
Zscaler ZS.O will be removed from the Nasdaq-100
** Nasdaq-100 is an index of 100 of the largest
non-financial companies listed on the Nasdaq exchange
(Reporting by Shashwat Chauhan in Bengaluru)
((Shashwat.Chauhan@thomsonreuters.com))