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TREE NEWS update: Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda said Japan’s current account is now primarily driven by income flows, noting the account has undergone a significant change. The remarks point to a shift in the composition of the country’s external balance, with income flows rather than trade taking the leading role.

TREE NEWS reports: The U.S. dollar index broke through the 102 mark on [date], rising 0.61% during the session. The move marks a fresh intraday high for the gauge, which tracks the greenback against a basket of major currencies. No further details were provided.

TREE NEWS reports: Turkey’s Borsa Istanbul National 100 index closed up 1.32% at 11,482.60 points on Friday, November 6, bringing its weekly gain to 6.72%. The Borsa Istanbul Banks index rose 1.94% to 16,398.20, up 12.26% over the week. Israel’s Tel Aviv Exchange 35 index gained 3.09% to 3,941.14 but ended the week down 2.9%.

TREE NEWS update: IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said central banks need to factor in a potential slowdown in AI-driven growth when assessing their measures against inflation. She made the remark as the AI investment boom and elevated valuations are affecting global markets.

TREE NEWS update: IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said central bankers need the ability to see through uncertainty in the current period, stressing that this is an especially important time for them. She did not specify which economies or policy decisions the remark referred to.

TREE NEWS update: SpaceX will attempt to recover both the Super Heavy booster and the Starship spacecraft on its upcoming test flight, Elon Musk said. If both succeed, it would mark the first complete return to Earth of all parts of an orbital rocket, a key breakthrough needed to enable multi-planetary life.

TREE NEWS reports: South Africa’s FTSE/JSE Africa Top 40 tradable index closed down 0.49% on Friday, November 6, slipping below the 105,000-point level. The index still gained 5.33% for the week, which was shortened by the November 4 market holiday, after opening sharply higher on November 5. Spot gold rose about 4.5% over the same week.

TREE NEWS reports: Democrats plan to introduce a wave of new legislation targeting artificial intelligence systems and data-center development when they take control of the US Congress in January 2027, lawmakers, congressional aides and industry advocates said. The bills would aim to shield consumers from rising electricity costs tied to data centers, require independent testing of advanced AI systems and clarify when AI companies are liable for harm caused by their products. The plans mark a sharp break from the Republican-led Congress, which focused on promoting AI and declined to pass restrictive legislation.

TREE NEWS update: Solana’s advertising campaign on the exterior of the Citigroup Tower in Shanghai’s Lujiazui district was abruptly halted by Chinese authorities, and a planned “Solana Accelerate China 2026” event in the city was stopped before it began. The People’s Bank of China responded to the incident, which sparked widespread discussion in the crypto industry. The central bank’s Financial News reported the developments.

TREE NEWS reports: US spot bitcoin ETFs have seen roughly $416 million in cumulative net outflows so far this year, as of Nov. 5. Inflows on positive days totaled about $25.63 billion, while outflows on negative days reached about $26.05 billion, largely offsetting each other. The funds recorded a single-day net outflow of about $430 million on Nov. 5.

TREE NEWS update: Tesla Cybertruck chief engineer Wes Morrill thanked buyers and Tesla employees in a post, calling the vehicle “a remarkable technical development platform whose life will continue through Cybercab.” The comment frames the Cybertruck as an engineering base whose lineage extends to Tesla’s planned robotaxi model. No further details were given.

TREE NEWS reports: Glass futures on China’s domestic exchanges rose 2.58% in night trading, leading gains that also lifted soda ash, methanol, caustic soda and synthetic rubber by as much as 1.85%. PTA, low-sulfur fuel oil and fuel oil gained at least 0.68%, while rebar added 0.16%. Coke and coking coal fell as much as 0.25%, iron ore slipped 0.44% and PVC lost 0.48%.

TREE NEWS reports: CoreWeave climbed as much as 9.2% and Nebius Group gained as much as 13.7% as “neocloud” stocks rallied. The US hyperscalers index held gains above 1.3%, with Meta, Oracle and Alphabet Class A up 1.8%, Amazon up 0.8% and Microsoft down 1.2%. The North America tech software ETF reversed to trade up more than 0.1% after rising about 0.9% early in the session.

TREE NEWS reports: HSBC strategist Max Kettner, who cut his US equity rating to neutral from overweight two weeks ago, said an Anthropic IPO would be a larger risk event than the US election. Kettner said the fundamentals of the AI trade remain intact despite this week’s sharp selloff, but he stays cautious after the vote, noting it is unclear how much risk the election can clear given investors had done little hedging beforehand.

TREE NEWS reports: The United States has recorded more than 5,000 confirmed measles cases this year, the first time the annual total has passed that level in 35 years. The figure marks a sharp resurgence of a disease once considered eliminated in the country.

TREE NEWS update: Elon Musk said Friday that SoftBank is defaulting on gas turbine orders, posting the claim on X without providing evidence. The remark came as AI infrastructure stocks sold off broadly and SoftBank shares fell 10.8%. Musk was replying to a post by Katie Miller that revived his January 2025 assertion that SoftBank lacked the money to finance the Stargate AI project and shared a Bloomberg report on a $500 million data-center loan tied to Stargate.

TREE NEWS update: Gnosis Pay confirmed a breach of its consumer-card system, stating that customer funds and its enterprise platform were unaffected. The company has not disclosed how many customers were impacted by the incident. Details on the nature and scope of the breach remain limited.