Today's Morning Movers and Top Ratings: AAPL, AIG, VFS, MARA and More

$American International Group(AIG.US)$ stock rose 0.4% after HSBC initiated coverage of the insurance giant with a 'buy' rating, calling it a “classic restructuring play.”

$VinFast Auto(VFS.US)$ stock rose 0.2% after the Vietnamese electric vehicle maker launched its first partnership with a U.S.-based dealer in its latest effort to ramp up sales in the United States market.

$Microsoft(MSFT.US)$ stock rose 0.3% despite The New York Times suing the software giant, as well as OpenAI, accusing them of using millions of the newspaper's articles without permission to help train chatbots to provide information to readers.

$Apple(AAPL.US)$ stock rose 0.3% after a U.S. appeals court paused a government commission's import ban on the sales of the tech giant's flagship smartwatches following a patent dispute with Masimo $Masimo(MASI.US)$ over its medical monitoring technology.

$Sociedad Quimica Y Minera De Chile(SQM.US)$ ADRs rose 7% after the miner agreed to a partnership with Chile's state-owned copper mining company Codelco for future lithium projects in the country.

$Marathon Digital(MARA.US)$ stock fell 4.6% after with the Bitcoin miner handing back the prior session's sharp gains on optimism a cryptocurrency ETF will be authorised in the near future.