TREE NEWS update: BitFuFu said in its October 2026 operational update that its bitcoin holdings rose to 1,454 BTC at period end, with 137 BTC mined during the month. The company reported 19.5 EH/s of computing power, 70 BTC from cloud mining, miner efficiency of 16.3 J/TH and 317 MW of power capacity. Network mining difficulty rose about 11.8% in October, weighing on overall bitcoin output while hosted hashrate remained stable.
TREE NEWS update: Anthropic is pushing ahead with an IPO aimed at starting trading on Nasdaq on Nov. 19 or 20 under the ticker ANT, with the company expected to disclose its valuation range, share count and offer price early this week. Investors had initially expected an IPO valuation of about $1.5 trillion, with talk of nearly $2 trillion, but after last week’s sharp AI stock selloff some major institutional investors pressed for a lower valuation, with a more realistic range of $1.1 trillion to $1.3 trillion cited and some seeing close to $1 trillion.
TREE NEWS update: Senator Elizabeth Warren will become chair of the Senate Banking Committee in January, her aides said, with priorities including cost of living, artificial intelligence, prediction markets, potential financial crises and accountability. With Democrats taking the Senate in the midterms, Warren will set the agenda for banking, deposit insurance, housing, the Federal Reserve and the crypto industry. She has taken a hard line on Trump family crypto interests, seeking investigations into ethics conflicts tied to Trump’s memecoin and World Liberty Financial.
TREE NEWS reports: Japan posted an adjusted current account surplus of ¥1.8177 trillion in September, missing the ¥2.7703 trillion expected by economists and down from ¥2.9794 trillion the previous month. The shortfall marks a sharp narrowing in the country’s external surplus for the month.
TREE NEWS reports: Japan’s September trade balance came in at a deficit of 187.5 billion yen, narrower than the 225.8 billion yen shortfall economists had expected and a sharp improvement from the 687.7 billion yen deficit recorded in the prior month. The reading reflects the gap between exports and imports for the month.
TREE NEWS reports: Japan’s bank lending, including trusts, rose 5.2% year-on-year in October, slowing from a 5.3% increase in September. The reading marks a modest deceleration in credit growth from the prior month. The figure covers lending by banks and trust accounts.
TREE NEWS update: WuXi AppTec said on November 9, 2026, that it was informed the U.S. Department of Defense had decided to remove the company from the CMC list under Section 1260H. The announcement marks the company’s exit from the Pentagon’s list of Chinese military companies. No further details were provided.
TREE NEWS update: China began issuing its 2026 ninth and tenth electronic savings bonds on Tuesday, both fixed-rate, fixed-term instruments. The ninth tranche has a three-year term with a coupon of 1.63%, while the tenth has a five-year term at 1.7%. Investors can buy through designated branches, with a maximum of 500,000 yuan per tranche per bond account, and personal pension account holders may use those funds to subscribe.
TREE NEWS reports: Japan’s household spending fell 6.8% year-on-year in September, well beyond the 3% decline expected and steeper than August’s 3.1% drop, government data showed. The sharper-than-forecast contraction marks a deepening pullback in consumer demand in the world’s fourth-largest economy.
TREE NEWS reports: Australia’s Westpac consumer confidence index fell 2.7% month-on-month in November, following a 4.7% decline in October. The reading marks a second consecutive monthly drop in the gauge of household sentiment.
TREE NEWS update: OpenAI has built a central system called Control Room to track model workloads across its research infrastructure and quickly halt them when safety risks arise, the company said in a post on X on November 10. The system covers all research inference workloads, including agent sampling and data processing used for model training and evaluation, and works with its misalignment monitoring system to stop model outputs within 35 seconds of an intervention decision. OpenAI said Control Room is part of its overall approach to safely training and deploying frontier models.
TREE NEWS update: Anthropic will begin its IPO roadshow as soon as Tuesday, putting its offering price to the test after a recent AI stock selloff, while the company released its flagship Fable 5.2 model, which it says outperforms GPT-6 Astra on multiple tests and is faster and cheaper, alongside Mythos 5.2. The Nasdaq rose nearly 3% as AI trade recovered, though Nvidia fell more than 4%.
TREE NEWS update: Strategy said on X that its US dollar holdings now cover 3.4 years of annual interest and dividend payments, up from 0.5 years at the end of May. As of Nov. 8 the company held 850,364 bitcoin and $4.9 billion in dollar assets, and last week it repurchased $188 million of STRC preferred stock.
TREE NEWS reports: Twenty-six A-share companies have announced obtaining loan commitment letters for share buybacks and stake increases since the start of November, Wind data shows. Qingniao Zhikong received one of the largest loan commitments among them. Market participants said firms with low price-to-book ratios, high returns on capital, state-owned enterprises with market-value management targets and high dividend payers have the strongest incentive to apply for dedicated buyback loans.
TREE NEWS reports: Several listed Chinese PCB makers say orders for AI-related printed circuit boards are full, with some deliveries running tight, and Ke Xiang Co. has announced capacity expansion for AI-computing PCBs. A senior executive at a leading PCB listed company said automotive, AI-server and telecom orders have been strong this year while consumer-electronics demand is steady. Electronic cloth, one of the three main materials in copper-clad laminates, has risen sharply this year on stronger downstream PCB demand.
TREE NEWS reports: Goldman Sachs said the yen remains the “best hedge” against the risk of a further selloff in AI-related assets, in a research note. The bank flagged renewed downside risk for AI trades and pointed to the Japanese currency as the preferred protection against that scenario. No specific price targets or trade levels were disclosed.
TREE NEWS reports: A-share listed companies repurchased more than 33 billion yuan ($4.6 billion) of shares from October through Nov. 8, with battery maker CATL accounting for over 5 billion yuan of that total. Analysts said valuations and sentiment are near the thresholds seen at past market bottoms, suggesting the floor may be largely in place, though a sustained reversal is not yet confirmed and policy, US Treasury yields and trading volume remain key signals to watch.
TREE NEWS update: Trump Media & Technology Group (DJT) reported a net profit of about $410 million for the third quarter of 2026, compared with a net loss of $54.8 million a year earlier, marking its first profitable quarter. The result included $496 million in realized and unrealized gains on digital assets, staked digital assets and equity securities, offset by $54 million in derivatives losses. Revenue rose 205% year on year to $3 million, and total assets stood at about $2.5 billion as of Sept. 30.
TREE NEWS update: Several Chinese banks and wealth management companies have recently issued announcements to terminate wealth management products ahead of schedule, covering daily-open, minimum-holding-period and closed-end products. Triggers include surviving shares falling below agreed thresholds, hitting profit-taking targets and early exit of underlying assets. Industry insiders expect such early exits to become more common as the sector transitions to net-asset-value management and standardized disclosure, accelerating the clearing of small-scale, weak-performing products.
TREE NEWS update: Kayleen Fulton, who facilitated Ethereum’s core developer calls, is suing the Ethereum Foundation and Vitalik Buterin, alleging she was fired 13 days after telling leadership she had cancer and 12 days after sending a staff letter about the foundation’s new Mandate. The lawsuit names both the foundation and its co-founder as defendants.