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TREE NEWS reports: Bitcoin dropped below $68,000 on November 14, trading at $67,980.60 per coin. The move marked a 1.33% decline within the day.

TREE NEWS reports: Nvidia’s board has reportedly approached Arm chief executive Rene Haas as it searches for a replacement for CEO Jensen Huang, while some employees are pushing to bring the chipmaker’s founder back as CEO. The reported approach comes as the board weighs succession options for Huang, who remains at the helm of the AI chip company.

TREE NEWS update: SpaceX said propellant loading is underway for a launch scheduled for today. The company did not specify the vehicle, payload or launch site in the update. No further details on the mission or timing were provided.

TREE NEWS update: Yemen’s Houthi movement said on the evening of the 13th local time that it struck an arms depot belonging to the Saudi-led coalition and Yemeni government forces in the Ras Abbas area of Aden with drones and missiles. The group also said it fired multiple ballistic missiles at a Saudi-led coalition military gathering point in Lahij province in southern Yemen. The Houthis claimed the strikes hit their targets directly and caused heavy casualties.

TREE NEWS reports: The offshore yuan (CNH) weakened to 6.6749 per dollar at the New York close on Friday, Nov. 13, down 16 pips from Thursday’s New York close. The currency traded in a range of 6.6673 to 6.6751 during the session, with the quote taken at 05:59 Beijing time on Saturday.

TREE NEWS update: The FBI is investigating whether a software update caused a large-scale systems outage at the Federal Aviation Administration, the bureau confirmed. The inquiry centers on whether the update triggered the disruption across FAA systems. No further details on the scope or timing of the outage were provided.

TREE NEWS update: CAS Space Compute (Zhongke Tiansuan) has developed China’s first commercial space supercomputing payload, the Aurora 5000C prototype, at the Shanghai Space-Based Computing Industrial Base. The payload, which uses fully domestic chips, is scheduled for launch and on-orbit verification, after which it could become the world’s first commercially operating space supercomputing payload. Unlike SpaceX’s experimental computing satellites, the payload is designed for continuous, reusable commercial on-orbit computing services.

TREE NEWS update: US Homeland Security Secretary Mullin said there is no indication that a threat led the Federal Aviation Administration to ground flights. The remark addresses the cause of the FAA halt, but the material provides no further detail on the scope or duration of the ground stop.

TREE NEWS update: The US National Weather Service reported nationwide internet and communications problems, the agency said. Technicians are actively working to resolve the issues as quickly as possible. No further details on the cause or scope were provided.

TREE NEWS update: Nav Canada said it is monitoring a ground stop order issued by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, the Canadian air navigation service provider said. The agency said its own systems are operating normally and that operations in Canada are currently unaffected by the U.S. directive. The FAA ground stop order was not further detailed in the statement.

TREE NEWS update: OpenAI has launched a payment wallet inside ChatGPT that lets AI agents complete purchases through existing card networks, with Visa, Mastercard and American Express involved. The company said it plans to eventually allow preauthorized transactions. No launch date or fee details were disclosed.

TREE NEWS update: Canada’s government has served Stellantis with a formal default notice giving the automaker 30 days to resolve a dispute over its plan to sell a shuttered assembly plant in Brampton, Ontario, or face legal action, Industry Minister Mélanie Joly said in Toronto. Ottawa alleges the move violates federal funding agreements after the company announced it would shift production to the United States amid President Trump’s trade war.

TREE NEWS reports: Goldman Sachs said the U.S. dollar is set to end 2026 “strong but erratic” and is expected to soften in 2027, the bank said in its outlook. The call frames the greenback’s path as firm through the current year before turning weaker the following year. No specific forecast levels were given in the material.

TREE NEWS update: A US ground stop caused roughly 7,000 flights to be delayed or cancelled. The disruption affected thousands of passengers across the country as airlines worked to recover schedules.

TREE NEWS reports: The Federal Aviation Administration’s ground stop order appears not to have resulted from a cyberattack. The order halted flights and drew immediate scrutiny over whether a cyber incident was involved. No further details on the cause or the scope of the disruption were provided.

TREE NEWS update: Blockstream has launched a new Bitcoin custody system developed with Thales that uses dedicated hardware for transaction signing. Adam Back, Blockstream’s co-founder and CEO, is advocating for offline security to reduce cyber risks. The system is designed to keep signing keys isolated from networked systems.

TREE NEWS update: United Airlines said it will not operate new domestic flights while the Federal Aviation Administration’s ground stop remains in effect. Flights already in the air will continue to their destinations, the carrier said. The FAA order halting departures is still active.

TREE NEWS reports: MSCI’s emerging markets stock index fell 0.3%, while the developing-nation currency index declined less than 0.1%. The moves reflect modest pressure across emerging-market equities and foreign exchange.

TREE NEWS reports: Outbound flight bookings for the 2027 New Year’s Day holiday (Jan 1–3) exceeded 240,000 as of Nov 13, up about 10% year on year. Domestic bookings topped 450,000, up about 8%, while inbound bookings were roughly flat at over 200,000. The pickup follows autumn school holidays that lifted travel demand in November.

TREE NEWS update: A House Oversight staff memorandum recommends Congress consider new limits on federal personnel betting on platforms such as Kalshi and Polymarket, citing suspicious trades by officials, military personnel and security-clearance holders. The memo does not propose specific legislation, instead flagging the issue for lawmakers’ review.