TREE NEWS update: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said the agenda for talks starting Tuesday in Abu Dhabi will be led by security for Russia and Ukraine and for the wider region. The talks will focus on agreeing principles that would be confirmed at the conclusion of negotiations on a comprehensive settlement of the Ukraine conflict, Lavrov said.
TREE NEWS update: Space and Time launched Space and Time Enterprise, a platform that uses its Proof of SQL technology to verify calculations on private business data without exposing the underlying records to AI agents. The Microsoft-backed company said the product is designed to let AI agents confirm results while keeping sensitive data private.
TREE NEWS reports: Fuel oil futures fell more than 6% at the night session open, with SC crude down nearly 5% and low-sulfur fuel oil off more than 4%. Methanol and LPG each dropped close to 4%, while polypropylene, propylene and pure benzene slid over 3%. Shanghai gold bucked the trend, gaining more than 1%.
TREE NEWS update: Eurozone finance ministers met in Brussels on Monday to assess the race to succeed Christine Lagarde as European Central Bank president, with Dutchman Klaas Knot and Spaniard Pablo Hernandez de Cos as candidates. Eurogroup President Kyriakos Pierrakakis said the goal is to complete the process by the end of the year. “We understand the need to move quickly,” he said, adding the timetable is tight.
TREE NEWS reports: China’s credit bond primary market issuance expanded to 20 trillion yuan this year, with AAA-rated issuers accounting for 72.3% of the total, as of November 8. The volume of postponed or cancelled issuance fell 45.07% year-on-year to about 149.381 billion yuan. Since late October, however, postponed issuance has rebounded, led by high-grade state-owned enterprises, as issuers time windows amid secondary market volatility.
TREE NEWS reports: Futures on all three major US stock indexes rose more than 1% on Wednesday, pointing to a higher open on Wall Street. The move covers contracts tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq, with each up over 1%.
TREE NEWS update: Giant Network announced it will repurchase its A-shares on the secondary market using its own funds, with the total buyback amount not exceeding RMB 600 million and not less than RMB 300 million, at a maximum price of RMB 32.60 per share. The shares repurchased will be used to safeguard company value and shareholder interests, and the buyback period is three months from the date the board of directors approved the plan.
TREE NEWS update: Formation has notified the SEC of plans to launch a tokenized stock trading venue on Solana, targeting early 2027 for shares in Exodus, Forward Industries and Galaxy. Access will be restricted to verified investors. The filing marks one of the first formal steps toward a regulated on-chain equities market.
TREE NEWS update: The New York Stock Exchange will use the Avalanche blockchain to settle tokenized stocks, the exchange said on November 9. The move puts a major U.S. equities venue on a public blockchain for settlement of tokenized equity, with Avalanche named as the network. No further details on timing or scope were given.
TREE NEWS reports: Alphabet shares rose 2.5% in premarket trading while Nvidia fell more than 6% after reports that Google will launch two new versions of its TPU systems to challenge Nvidia. The moves reflect investor reaction to the reported Google TPU rollout, which would intensify competition with Nvidia in AI chips.
TREE NEWS update: Formation has notified the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission of its plan to operate the first tokenized securities venue on Solana, with launch expected in early 2027. Initial offerings will include tokenized shares of Exodus Movement, Forward Industries, and Galaxy Digital.
TREE NEWS update: The European Union is recruiting industry participants for a group tasked with drafting initial standards for holding and settling tokenized securities by early 2028. Applications close Nov. 27. The group is intended to lay the groundwork for standardized market infrastructure around tokenized securities in the bloc.
TREE NEWS reports: Citi tactically downgraded US equities, global tech and European tech to “neutral” from “overweight” on November 9, citing the risk of further declines in investor positioning, while upgrading European equities excluding the UK to “overweight”. The bank said AI market sentiment has weakened sharply, partly because midterm election results raised questions over the long-term path of AI spending. Nasdaq positioning could swing from neutral to net short, and would need a further roughly 5% decline to turn genuinely negative, Citi said, adding it remains bullish on AI over the medium term but will restore an overweight only after positioning clears and AI sentiment stabilizes.
TREE NEWS reports: JPMorgan strategists led by Dubravko Lakos-Bujas said investor pessimism may be nearing its peak after last week’s momentum-trade crash, which they view as a deleveraging process. The team said signs of capitulation are mounting after the largest unwind of long-momentum strategies relative to the broader market in about 40 years, with deleveraging indicators back at levels seen during the “Liberation Day” period and sentiment shifting from bullish in June to bearish.
TREE NEWS update: European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on 9 January that the EU will take part in this week’s trilateral Russia-US-Ukraine talks in Abu Dhabi, the UAE. She said she had spoken by phone with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky about “ongoing peace efforts” and the talks. Zelensky said the two agreed on the EU launching an emergency assistance mechanism for Ukraine.
TREE NEWS update: Crypto platform Bullish (NYSE: BLSH) has appointed former New York Stock Exchange president Stacey Cunningham as its president. Cunningham, the first woman to lead the NYSE Group and a former Uniswap Labs adviser, takes the role as Bullish moves to complete its $4.2 billion acquisition of transfer agent Equiniti, announced in May 2026 and expected to close in January 2027. Bullish has also been approved in Gibraltar to conduct tokenized securities trading.
TREE NEWS update: President Trump defended his family’s World Liberty Financial crypto venture against questions about foreign money, citing index funds, his sons and George Washington in his response. The remarks came after midterm elections that handed Democrats control of congressional committees and their subpoena power. Trump said past presidents owned “whatever crypto was at the time.”
TREE NEWS update: Poland’s lower house of parliament has backed a broader sanctions bill that allows crypto assets held on exchanges to be frozen before a court reviews a customer’s designation. Listed customers could lose access to exchange-held assets prior to judicial review, and an appeal would not automatically lift the restrictions.
TREE NEWS update: China’s Cyberspace Administration launched a new filing system for internet technology and new-application information services at beian.cac.gov.cn, retiring its separate algorithm-filing and blockchain-service filing systems. Shanghai’s cyberspace regulator said blockchain service names may not contain terms such as virtual currency, exchange or ICO, and that virtual-currency issuance, trading or ICO activity, overseas server deployment and missing ICP filings can all affect applications. BaaS platforms must also file, and generative AI apps calling filed models via API to serve the public must register.
TREE NEWS update: Expace unveiled a development plan on Nov 9 for its Kuaizhou launch vehicle series, targeting more than 50 missions over the next three years using the Kuaizhou-1A and Kuaizhou-11 rockets. In 2027, the solid-liquid Kuaizhou-12 and the reusable liquid Kuaizhou-6 are scheduled to make their maiden flights, with payload capacities of 10 and 20 tonnes respectively. Kuaizhou rockets have flown 40 missions since their first launch in 2013.