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TREE NEWS update: Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said a migrant caravan is still assembling in the country’s south and has not begun moving toward the U.S. border, as Washington threatened retaliation if the group reaches it. Mexico’s National Migration Institute told Reuters about 870 people had gathered in Huixtla, roughly 60 km west of the southern border with Guatemala, while two local sources and an NGO estimated the group at 1,500-2,000 — which would make it the largest caravan this year.

TREE NEWS update: French President Emmanuel Macron said on the 13th that he will co-host a meeting with Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof in Paris next month bringing together tech company leaders to strengthen government-industry cooperation and Europe’s technological autonomy. Speaking after an informal EU leaders’ summit in Dublin, Macron said Europe’s independence “cannot be outsourced” and must be built at home. AI was a key topic at the summit, and Macron said Europe has the talent, energy and technology to compete and must invest more and decide faster.

TREE NEWS reports: CBOT soybean futures rose 3.27% over the week to close at $12.3275 a bushel on Friday, Nov. 13, New York time, while soybean meal gained 2.56% and soyoil added 2.58%. CBOT corn edged up 0.44% to $4.5725 a bushel and wheat climbed 0.71% to $6.07. The Bloomberg Grains Subindex gained 0.84% to 29.7322 points, up 1.31% on the week, after USDA’s monthly grain stocks report on Nov. 10.

TREE NEWS update: Microsoft said it cannot yet determine when a full recovery will be completed, giving no timeline for restoring services. The company did not specify which systems or regions remain affected. No further details on the cause or scope of the disruption were provided.

TREE NEWS update: The Federal Reserve will buy $14 billion of mortgage-backed securities for reinvestment and has extended the suspension of reserve purchases until mid-December. The schedule covers the central bank’s Treasury operations over the period.

TREE NEWS reports: JPMorgan strategists led by Nathaniel Rosenbaum expect US high-grade bond supply to reach a record $2.1 trillion in 2027, driven by big tech’s spending on AI infrastructure and higher refinancing needs. That would top the $2 trillion issuance record the bank expects for this year, the strategists wrote in a Friday report.

TREE NEWS update: The U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform issued a memorandum on its prediction-market insider trading investigation, recommending Congress legislate to restrict federal government personnel, members of Congress and their staff from trading on prediction markets, including a full ban or limits on government-related contracts. The committee said it obtained nearly 1,700 pages of documents and briefings from five platforms; most insider-trading cases were detected and reported by the platforms themselves, with Polymarket and Kalshi continuing to improve monitoring.

TREE NEWS update: The U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform issued a memorandum on its prediction-market insider trading investigation, recommending Congress legislate to restrict federal employees, members of Congress and their staff from trading on prediction markets — either banning trading outright or limiting trades on government-related contracts. The committee said it obtained nearly 1,700 pages of documents and briefed five platforms; most insider-trading cases were found and reported by the platforms themselves, with Polymarket and Kalshi continuing to improve their monitoring.

TREE NEWS update: Yemen’s Houthi movement said its armed forces struck a Saudi weapons depot inside the Ras Abbas military camp in Aden province using ballistic missiles and drones, adding that the strikes hit precisely and set the depot ablaze. The statement gave no further details on casualties or damage.

TREE NEWS reports: Matthew Rowe, senior portfolio manager at Man Group, said he is increasingly concerned the US economy will slip into stagflation, a risk he expects could push the 10-year Treasury yield to 5.5% by early next year. The 10-year yield edged up to 5.14% on Friday. Rowe said an oil shock from the Iran war, President Trump’s tariffs and the AI investment boom could keep inflation elevated, producing a milder version of 1970s stagflation.

TREE NEWS reports: Santander’s US chief economist Stephen Stanley raised his Federal Reserve rate-hike forecast to 25 basis points in both December and March, citing intensifying inflation pressures. He had previously expected a single December hike and no action in 2027. Stanley said the revision reflects strong growth, broadening price pressures, a higher estimate of the neutral policy stance at roughly 3.5%, and recent Fed commentary on input-cost pass-through.

TREE NEWS update: Meta Platforms is testing a new prediction market app with its employees, the company confirmed. The internal trial puts Meta into a product category already occupied by platforms such as Polymarket and Kalshi, though no launch date or external availability has been announced. Further details of the test were not disclosed.

TREE NEWS reports: Israeli Defense Forces Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir is isolated in his position on whether to immediately resume military action against Iran, facing opposition from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and several senior security officials appointed by him, Israeli sources said on the 13th. The reported split comes as Israel weighs a fresh round of strikes on Iran.

TREE NEWS update: A team at the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Automation found that the brain needs only a small number of neurons to decode three-dimensional hand movement trajectories, based on primate experiments. Both the primary motor cortex and premotor cortex required only a few position-tuned cells to decode 3D trajectories, the team said on November 13. The findings, published in the Journal of Neuroscience, offer a neuroscientific basis for developing more efficient brain-computer interfaces.

TREE NEWS update: Foundry USA Pool has started testing Stratum V2, a protocol upgrade that lets individual miners select which transactions to include in the blocks they mine. The move gives participating miners autonomy over transaction selection rather than leaving block construction entirely to the pool. The testing phase marks a step toward broader adoption of the mining protocol.

TREE NEWS update: Sidney Powell, CEO of Maple, said recent leadership departures concern the firm’s direction rather than its loan book, and outlined plans to expand institutional credit and fintech distribution. The comments defend Maple’s institutional push amid the exits. No figures or departure names were disclosed.

TREE NEWS reports: Barclays’ trading desk has turned tactically bullish on US equities for the first time since mid-March, citing a sharp pullback in investor positioning and easing volatility pressures that create favorable conditions for a tactical rebound. Alex Altmann, Barclays’ global head of equity tactical strategy, wrote in a client note that the view reflects only a tactical bounce and is not yet a shift in the fundamental outlook on headwinds that have kept the bank cautious since late May.

TREE NEWS update: The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has granted SpaceX a launch license for the 15th flight of its Starship vehicle, clearing the company to launch from Texas on Friday. The license covers the next integrated test flight of the reusable rocket system.

TREE NEWS update: Yemen’s Houthi movement said the Saudi-led coalition carried out 85 airstrikes and missile attacks on Yemen in the 24 hours to the evening of the 13th, hitting Lahij, Taiz, Saada, Al-Jawf, Marib and Amran provinces. The group said the total number of coalition airstrikes and missile attacks since the latest escalation began has reached 4,948.

TREE NEWS update: MEGA has disclosed a 20% staff reduction, with departing employees having worked on its chain, wallet and ecosystem. The disclosure comes three days after the company pledged $30 million to product development. The company did not specify how many positions were affected or which teams were hit hardest.