TREE NEWS reports: The British pound gained 0.5% against the U.S. dollar to trade at 1.3422. The move marks a firmer session for sterling versus the greenback.
TREE NEWS reports: An address suspected to be linked to the UXLINK attacker (0xDE8d9…d9524) holds about 21,550 ETH in long positions on Hyperliquid, worth roughly $45.3 million, with an average entry price of about $2,134.45 and 15x cross-margin leverage. The address had previously received 11 million USDC from another address (0x35Eb7…5D43), PeckShield data shows.
TREE NEWS update: Naipu Mining Machinery plans to repurchase its shares for 50 million to 80 million yuan, with a maximum buyback price of 22.45 yuan per share. The company disclosed the buyback plan on [date not specified in material]. No further details on timing or funding source were provided.
TREE NEWS update: Donald Trump said he knows “nothing” about the UAE-linked investment in the crypto firm he co-owns, stating that his sons run the business. The remarks address scrutiny of foreign capital tied to the Trump-affiliated crypto venture, with the former president distancing himself from its management.
TREE NEWS update: Chutian Expressway plans to publicly issue corporate bonds of up to 3.5 billion yuan ($480 million), with a maturity of no more than 10 years. Proceeds will be used to supplement working capital, repay interest-bearing debt, fund fixed-asset investment, mergers and acquisitions, asset restructuring, capital injections into subsidiaries or funds, and investments in specific sectors.
TREE NEWS update: Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Baghaei said on the 9th that the United States’ “Iron Gate” plan to encircle Iran by land is no different from previous containment efforts and is bound to fail. The remarks were reported by Iranian state media. No further details on the plan’s scope or timing were provided.
TREE NEWS update: German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on November 8 that he intends to nominate Ilse Aigner, the Bavarian state parliament president from the Christian Social Union, as Germany’s presidential candidate. Aigner would become the country’s first female president if elected. Merz announced the decision at a leadership dinner of the Christian Democratic Union and plans to formally present the nomination to senior CDU bodies on November 9.
TREE NEWS update: Stellantis said it does not comment on market rumors or speculation after reports on Nov. 9 that Maserati’s cooperation project with Zunjie, called “Maserati Design,” involves Huawei, JAC and Stellantis. The automaker said the Maserati brand’s future strategy and development plan will be officially announced at its investor day in Modena, Italy, in December, and it will not comment further before then.
TREE NEWS reports: Machi Big Brother (Huang Lih-cheng) sold six Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs over the past 15 hours for a total of about $83,880. The tokens sold were BAYC #701, #4898, #6072, #250, #1297 and #4942, with the most recent payment of about $14,570 received minutes before the report.
TREE NEWS update: Public First Action, an AI safety advocacy group linked to Anthropic, has claimed a major victory in the U.S. midterm elections. The group said Leading the Future, the top pro-AI super PAC, has suffered a “crushing defeat.” It warned, however, that reading the outcome as the end of Big Tech’s AI political push would be a mistake.
TREE NEWS update: Beijing Vice Mayor Sun Shuo visited the Beijing Stock Exchange on Nov. 9 and chaired a symposium as the bourse approaches its fifth anniversary of trading, receiving a report on its five-year development and discussing next steps. Officials from the Beijing Municipal Financial Administration, Zhongguancun Science Park management, the municipal economy and information technology bureau, Xicheng District and the Beijing securities regulator attended.
TREE NEWS update: The Shanghai Stock Exchange expanded its published list of funders for bond-pledged negotiated repo to 28 from 22. For the first time, the list highlights five institutions that accept inter-institutional REITs as collateral: GF Asset Management, Wanlian Asset Management, CMB Wealth Management, Yunnan Trust and CITIC Trust.
TREE NEWS reports: Ether dropped below $2,100 on November 9, trading at $2,099.87, a 6.34% decline within the day. The move marks a fresh intraday low for the second-largest cryptocurrency.
TREE NEWS update: Citigroup initiated coverage of Muyuan Foods Group Co., Ltd. A-shares with a Buy rating. The move marks the US bank’s first published rating on the Chinese pork producer’s mainland-listed stock. No target price was disclosed in the initial rating note.
TREE NEWS update: The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China’s Singapore branch, Agricultural Bank of China’s Dubai branch, Bank of China (Hong Kong) and Bank of China’s New York branch completed the first pilot foreign exchange trades with multiple onshore and offshore market members in the interbank FX market, China Foreign Exchange Trade System said. The trades covered spot, forward and swap products, with currency pairs including the yuan against the US dollar, euro and Singapore dollar.
TREE NEWS reports: Bitcoin dropped to its lowest price levels since mid-August as Nvidia’s earnings report added sell-side pressure across stock-market futures, with BTC now eyeing $73,000. The move marks a fresh bout of volatility for the largest cryptocurrency, which has tracked broader risk-asset swings tied to the AI chipmaker’s results.
TREE NEWS update: The U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has converted Coinbase’s trust charter from conditional approval to a full license, the company said. Coinbase received conditional approval to establish Coinbase National Trust Company on April 2, 2026. The charter brings its custody and market infrastructure operations under unified federal supervision and provides a base for new products such as payments; the company said it will not take retail deposits or engage in fractional-reserve banking. Coinbase, Inc. remains regulated by NYDFS under its BitLicense and state trust charter.
TREE NEWS update: Hon Hai Precision Industry has applied to Taiwan’s Financial Supervisory Commission for a three-month extension of the fundraising period for its unsecured convertible corporate bond. The company did not disclose the size of the offering or the reason for the request. The application is pending the regulator’s review.
TREE NEWS update: French private equity firm Ardian closed €1 billion for its semiconductor investment strategy, Ardian Semiconductor, with fund commitments of nearly €700 million and the remainder in co-investments. Middle East and North Africa investors accounted for 41% of capital and French investors 24%, alongside government agencies, sovereign wealth funds, chip companies, insurers and private wealth clients. Launched in October 2023, the strategy targets the semiconductor value chain, mainly in Europe, and has backed France’s VSORA, which designs AI inference accelerators.
TREE NEWS update: FinCEN and the Federal Reserve have withdrawn a proposal that would have written cryptocurrency into Travel Rule definitions, the regulators said. Any future attempt to lower the cross-border recordkeeping threshold to $250 or to spell out crypto coverage will first go back out for public comment, they said.