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TREE NEWS reports: All three major US stock indexes fell intraday on October 9, with the Dow Jones down 0.20%, the Nasdaq down 1.06% and the S&P 500 down 0.49%. The declines were reported from market data showing broad weakness across the indexes during the session.

TREE NEWS reports: Riot Platforms (RIOT) shares fell 10.03% intraday to $16.64. The drop marks a sharp single-session decline for the bitcoin miner’s stock, which trades under the ticker RIOT.

TREE NEWS update: Renault CEO Storonsky said the company’s goal is to achieve a primary listing in the United States. The automaker’s chief executive framed the US as the target venue for its main stock listing. No timeline or further details were given.

TREE NEWS update: Apple will hold a product launch event titled ‘Welcome Home’ in New York on October 13. The company announced the date for the event, which is expected to center on new product introductions. No further details on the products to be unveiled were disclosed.

TREE NEWS reports: The S&P 500 energy sector climbed 3.1% intraday, its largest single-session advance since August 10. The move marks the sector’s strongest intraday performance in months, with all figures as reported.

TREE NEWS reports: The MSCI Nordic Countries Index fell 0.7% to 385.34 points, with Nordic healthcare stocks posting the steepest decline among the ten sectors tracked. Genmab A/S dropped 5.3%, the worst performer among Nordic individual stocks.

TREE NEWS reports: Germany’s DAX 30 closed provisionally down 1.08% at 24,835.09 points, while France’s index fell 0.46% and the UK’s slipped 0.16%. Italy’s benchmark dropped 1.17%, with its banking index down 2.50%, extending the previous session’s losses.

TREE NEWS reports: L’Oreal’s US subsidiary has hired WilmerHale and Dusseldorf-based law firm Dussela Partners to handle personal-injury lawsuits over its talc-containing products, and is considering spinning off and selling the related tort liabilities into a separate legal entity. As of June 30, about 760 talc-related lawsuits alleging asbestos particles in cosmetics were pending in the US, up from roughly 620 at end-2025. L’Oreal China said products sold through official domestic channels meet national standards.

TREE NEWS update: More than 30 companies on China’s STAR Market disclosed positive announcements in a single day, spanning earnings previews, share buybacks and major orders. Amlogic led with a third-quarter preview projecting net profit of 1.26-1.31 billion yuan for the first three quarters, up 80.58%-87.74% year on year, with full-year revenue potentially topping 10 billion yuan on multi-product rollouts and overseas customer expansion.

TREE NEWS reports: Belron Group SCA, parent of Safelite and Autoglass, has selected Bank of America, BNP Paribas, JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley to lead a potential initial public offering that could rank as Europe’s largest in years. The world’s largest vehicle-glass repair company is leaning toward an Amsterdam listing and may seek a valuation above €30 billion ($34 billion).

TREE NEWS reports: Starbucks has explored the possibility of acquiring Chipotle and has worked with multiple advisers on a plan, the Financial Times reported. The deal, which would combine two major US consumer brands, could become the largest merger in restaurant-industry history if completed. Chipotle shares extended gains to 8%, while Starbucks fell 5.9%, its biggest intraday drop since March.

TREE NEWS reports: Chinese biomass energy stocks rallied on October 8, with Zhuoyue Xinneng closing limit up and Haixin Energy Technology gaining 11.37%. Shandong Huanneng, Tianhao Energy and Fengbei Biology rose 4.01%, 4.58% and 5.06% respectively. The move followed multiple media reports that Thailand’s government is considering cutting biofuel excise taxes to lower prices and boost consumption.

TREE NEWS update: Chinese precision-component maker Changying Precision said it has formed close partnerships with several leading humanoid robot brands at home and abroad, delivering more than 1.1 million precision components for humanoid robots between January and August 2026. Order growth in the third and fourth quarters is faster than in the first half, and the company is expanding capacity in line with customer demand.

TREE NEWS reports: The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index dropped more than 2%, with Intel falling nearly 4% and Super Micro Computer down over 3%. Seagate Technology declined nearly 3% as chip stocks broadly sold off.

TREE NEWS reports: China’s 150 securities firms reported combined operating revenue of 329.8 billion yuan ($45.7 billion) in the first half of 2026, up about 31% year on year, according to KPMG’s 2026 China Securities Industry Survey released on July 8. Net profit rose 23% to 138.7 billion yuan. Proprietary trading remained the largest revenue source, with brokerage, investment banking, asset management and credit businesses all growing.

TREE NEWS reports: Billionaire investor Ray Dalio warned that stocks face mounting pressure from rising bond yields and weakening corporate cash flow, even as earnings keep growing. Equities have so far withstood the global bond selloff because earnings growth has kept their expected returns attractive relative to bonds. Dalio said that advantage will gradually erode, leaving stocks more vulnerable as financial conditions tighten.

TREE NEWS update: Asked on an investor interaction platform whether it is a supplier to Huawei’s Mate 90, Feirongda said on Oct. 8 that it provides thermal management and electromagnetic shielding products for a customer’s new phone model. The company said it works closely with leading handset brands, and its phone components include graphite and graphene sheets, heat pipes, vapor chambers, phase-change energy storage materials, micro fans and micro-pump liquid cooling, plus EMI shielding materials and devices.

TREE NEWS reports: US stocks opened lower, with the Dow down 0.36%, the S&P 500 down 0.37% and the Nasdaq down 0.51%. Optical communications shares fell, as Coherent dropped more than 4% and Corning, Lumentum and Marvell Technology each lost over 3%. Wolfspeed rose 11% after securing a $1.5 billion conditional loan commitment from the US Department of Defense.

TREE NEWS reports: The S&P 500 opened 23.32 points lower, down 0.30% at 7,778.45. The Dow Jones Industrial Average opened down 74.83 points, or 0.15%, at 51,105.04, while the Nasdaq Composite opened 122.66 points lower, down 0.45% at 27,416.03.

TREE NEWS reports: Nvidia and Boeing shares each fell about 1% in premarket trading after disclosures that Donald Trump sold between $500,001 and $1,000,000 worth of stock in each company in August. The filings cover two separate positions, one in Nvidia and one in Boeing, with the sales dated to August.