TREE NEWS update: Iran’s president said Tehran is willing to enter negotiations to end what he described as a “neither war nor peace” situation. The remarks signal a possible opening for talks amid the current standoff. No further details on the scope, timing or participants of any negotiations were given.
TREE NEWS update: President Donald Trump said he knows “nothing” about World Liberty Financial, the family crypto venture, when pressed on why he does not divest from it. Trump said his sons run the business and that every president faces conflicts of interest. His remarks came as he defended his ties to the United Arab Emirates.
TREE NEWS reports: WTI crude fell 3.0% intraday to $88.1 a barrel and Brent dropped 3.0% to $95.06, while US equity futures climbed, with Dow futures up more than 1%, S&P 500 futures up 0.7% and Nasdaq 100 futures up 0.5%. European stocks also rose, as the Stoxx 600 extended gains to 1%, the Stoxx 50 and Germany’s DAX gained more than 1%, and the FTSE 100 and France’s CAC 40 rose nearly 1%.
TREE NEWS reports: Brent crude fell 2.5% intraday to $95.86 a barrel, while West Texas Intermediate dropped 2.5% to $88.44 a barrel. Both benchmarks posted the same percentage decline during the session.
TREE NEWS update: Robinhood’s UK customers can now request shares in eligible US initial public offerings at the offer price before the stocks begin trading. The brokerage said the feature gives British retail investors pre-listing access to US IPO allocations.
TREE NEWS update: Wang Jianlin has retaken the role of chairman of Dalian Wanda Commercial Management Group, completing a business registration change on Nov. 5 that saw Chen Hongtao step down as chairman but retain his positions as legal representative, director and manager. Chen had held the chairmanship for just over four months, making this the second change in the post this year. The same day, the company replaced its chief financial officer, and several Wanda veterans returned to the board.
TREE NEWS update: Huaru Technology said it received a prohibition notice from the military procurement portal barring it from participating in PLA materials and engineering services procurement from Nov. 22, 2023 to Nov. 22, 2028. Legal representative Han Chao and associated person Xia Jinfeng are barred from related activities from March 31, 2026 to March 31, 2029. The company said it has won no orders from the portal since Nov. 22, 2023, the matter does not affect going-concern, and it signed new contracts worth 376 million yuan in 2024 and 366 million yuan in 2025.
TREE NEWS update: Hunan Valin Steel’s subsidiary Valin ArcelorMittal Automotive Steel plans to build a third automotive steel sheet project with a total investment of 3.147 billion yuan, including tax. The project adds an 850,000-ton high-efficiency vacuum coating line and a 1-million-ton continuous annealing line, with a 28-month construction period, funded 50% by internal capital and 50% by bank loans. Galvanized capacity will rise to 3 million tons from 2 million tons.
TREE NEWS update: Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on November 9 that the upcoming talks on Ukraine in Abu Dhabi will be trilateral talks mediated by the United States. Peskov noted that European countries have channels of communication with the United States and Ukraine, but the format in Abu Dhabi will be trilateral. The statement addressed whether European representatives would take part in the negotiations.
TREE NEWS update: Tianbang Foods said it signed a restructuring investment agreement with Tongwei Group, which will conditionally receive 1.47 billion shares at 0.98 yuan each for total consideration of 1.441 billion yuan. The shares come from a capital reserve conversion of 13.8 shares for every 10 held, creating 3.066 billion new shares in total. Tongwei was selected as the winning investor by the investor review committee.
TREE NEWS reports: USD.AI has originated 20 GPU-backed loans totaling $531 million, with individual deals ranging from several hundred thousand dollars to $128.9 million. The stablecoin-funded lender charges 10% to 15% on loans and holds first-priority liens on servers and SPV equity, targeting neoclouds that banks will not underwrite. On Oct. 29, Silver Point Capital and Victory Park Capital joined USD.AI in a $106 million four-year loan to NexGen Cloud for 1,728 B300 chips in Finland.
TREE NEWS update: Anthropic notified South Korea’s Personal Information Protection Commission on Oct. 31 that information from about 100 Korean enterprise Claude accounts was exposed, the regulator said on Nov. 9. The commission is at a preliminary review stage and has not opened a formal investigation. The leak is believed tied to security firm Cathedral exploiting a third-party business software flaw to gain unauthorized access to Anthropic systems; exposed data may include account and organization IDs, names and email addresses.
TREE NEWS update: Bao Xiuyin, chairman and one of the actual controllers of Nanya New Material, proposed a share buyback through centralized bidding with total funding of no less than 100 million yuan and no more than 200 million yuan. The maximum price will not exceed 150% of the average trading price over the 30 trading days before the board approves the buyback resolution. The repurchased shares will be used to safeguard company value and shareholder rights, with implementation within three months of shareholder approval, subject to regulatory procedures.
TREE NEWS update: Privacy-focused blockchain Midnight has upgraded its mainnet to Ledger 9, adding support for private asset transfers, inter-contract call execution, and new cryptographic standards including Keccak-256 and ECDSA. The upgrade, announced on November 9, expands the network’s privacy and smart-contract capabilities.
TREE NEWS reports: Equity ETFs in China logged net inflows on 25 consecutive trading days from Sept. 28, pulling in more than 620 billion yuan in total — the longest streak of continuous net inflows on record. Last week alone, equity ETFs took in 194.769 billion yuan, the second-highest weekly net inflow for such funds.
TREE NEWS update: Robinhood has launched commission-free IPO Access in the UK, allowing retail investors to request shares in eligible U.S. listings. The move extends the brokerage’s IPO access feature to British users, who can now request shares in U.S. companies going public. The company announced the launch without disclosing further terms or a specific date.
TREE NEWS update: Skyverse (中科飞测) plans to repurchase shares through centralized bidding at a maximum price of RMB 440 per share, with the total buyback amount set between RMB 100 million and RMB 150 million. The repurchased shares will be used for equity incentives or employee stock ownership plans, and the program is to be completed within 12 months of board approval.
TREE NEWS update: Coach China president Liliana Lucioni said the brand will not raise prices blindly, stressing that its business depends on the market rather than price increases. Parent company Tapestry reported first-quarter sales of $1.89 billion, up 11% year on year, with Coach up 16%. China sales jumped 39% at constant currency, helping drive global growth, while Tapestry added about 2.6 million new customers globally, around 35% of them Gen Z.
TREE NEWS update: The UK Financial Conduct Authority said banks can now submit applications to conduct crypto asset business ahead of the new crypto regulatory regime. Firms that apply by February 28, 2027 and meet specific requirements may continue operating while their applications are reviewed, the FCA said.
TREE NEWS reports: PeckShield flagged a $45.3 million ETH long position that may be linked to the UXLink exploit, according to a dashboard snapshot showing roughly $44 million in ETH exposure and an unrealized loss of about $652,000. The on-chain monitoring firm’s alert points to a possible connection between the large leveraged position and the UXLink incident.