TREE NEWS reports: Night-session futures opened with styrene, iron ore, fuel oil, soda ash and pure benzene each falling more than 1%, while low-sulfur fuel oil rose more than 1%. The moves came at the start of night trading.
TREE NEWS update: Hypercall will launch the first pre-IPO options market tied to Anthropic, with trading expected to begin Monday. The venue will offer calls, puts and more complex strategies in select non-US jurisdictions. The product gives investors a way to take positions on the AI company’s private valuation ahead of any listing.
TREE NEWS update: WeChat has removed 26,117 pieces of rule-breaking content and penalized 1,531 accounts since launching a campaign against fake personas in short videos, the platform said in a second-phase notice. It is tightening account verification and content review, and will require labels on fictional and AI-generated content. Penalties range from limiting distribution to account bans, with cases suspected of crimes reported to authorities.
TREE NEWS update: Douyin said it has assisted authorities in dismantling 44 criminal gangs since the start of 2026. The platform said some violations are no longer isolated individual acts but organized, chain-like and professional operations that increasingly extend off-platform. Gangs take tasks from overseas platforms, buy verified accounts in bulk and recruit people to lure users off-site, it said.
TREE NEWS update: World Liberty Financial, the Trump-linked crypto venture, said it will repurchase its WLFI token to “consolidate voting power,” without disclosing the size or start date of the buyback. The company said early funding for the repurchases may come from fees on the reserves of its USD1 stablecoin.
TREE NEWS update: Subaru Motor (China) Co., Ltd. has filed a recall plan with China’s State Administration for Market Regulation, effective December 21, 2026, covering 196,494 imported Forester, Legacy, Outback, XV and BRZ vehicles built between August 23, 2011 and August 25, 2016. The recall is registered under number S2026M0135I.
TREE NEWS reports: Bank of England Chief Economist Huw Pill said there is no preset path for interest rates next year, with the outlook becoming more uncertain from spring onward. Rates could stay unchanged or be cut if economic growth stalls next year, he said. The key determinant will be the squeeze on corporate profit margins and how businesses respond.
TREE NEWS update: Chery Automobile Co. has filed a recall plan with China’s State Administration for Market Regulation covering 53,882 Tiggo 5x and Omoda vehicles built between June 6, 2022 and Dec. 31, 2023. The recall, numbered S2026M0146V, takes effect Nov. 27, 2026. The filing was made under China’s defective vehicle product recall regulations.
TREE NEWS update: The Bank of Russia has approved rules for Bitcoin, Ether and USDT trading that take effect Nov. 17. Non-qualified investors must pass a test and face a 300,000-ruble annual purchase cap per intermediary. The Moscow Exchange is targeting a Dec. 1 rollout.
TREE NEWS update: BYD’s anti-counterfeiting office warned that fraudsters are circulating forged “Vehicle Recall Notices” bearing the company’s name, sent via unsolicited calls, text messages, suspicious links and QR codes. The fake documents claim a batch defect in brake pedal limit pads and invoke the State Administration for Market Regulation, pressuring owners to respond within two hours or lose warranty coverage to push them toward phishing sites, bank card details, verification codes or transfers. Some owners have reported receiving the forged notices.
TREE NEWS update: Several Irish media organizations received bomb threats on Thursday, November 6, prompting emergency evacuations of some offices, including the headquarters of national broadcaster RTÉ, where programming was briefly interrupted. Police have opened an investigation. An RTÉ journalist read excerpts of the threatening email on air; it claimed the sender was behind a series of bomb threats against flights across Europe this week, though the excerpts did not name the group.
TREE NEWS update: A market in Yemen’s southwestern Taiz province was hit by three Saudi airstrikes on March 6, causing more than 30 deaths and injuries. The market was crowded at the time of the strikes.
TREE NEWS update: China Energy Investment Corp. General Manager Feng Laifa said the hydrogen industry is at a critical stage of moving from pilot projects to industrialization and commercialization, speaking at a hydrogen forum on Nov. 5 hosted by the National Energy Administration and the Ministry of Commerce in Shanghai. He cited high equipment costs, insufficient storage and transport infrastructure, incomplete standards and certification, and immature business models as challenges requiring global cooperation.
TREE NEWS update: Bank of England Chief Economist Huw Pill said there is a lack of evidence of second-round effects in the UK economy, describing the rate hike decision as precautionary. Pill’s remarks suggest the central bank sees limited signs of inflation becoming embedded through wage and price setting. The comments came as the BoE weighed further tightening against easing inflation pressures.
TREE NEWS reports: U.S. spot crypto ETFs returned to net outflows on Thursday, with more than $540 million withdrawn across major products. The withdrawals came as the market slid in the wake of the midterm elections. The figure marks a sharp reversal for the funds, which had drawn inflows in preceding sessions.
TREE NEWS update: An oil tanker exploded while departing the Strait of Hormuz, the UK Maritime Trade Operations office said in a security alert on November 6 local time. The incident occurred at 22:00 UTC on November 5, and all personnel on board are safe. The office did not give further details on the cause or the vessel’s identity.
TREE NEWS update: The International Maritime Organization’s 138th Council session closed in London on November 6, reaffirming that vital international straits and shipping lanes must remain open and secure. The council also stated that all seafarers, regardless of nationality, should be protected.
TREE NEWS update: The 30th Ibero-American Summit, held in Madrid, adopted the Madrid Declaration on November 5, reaffirming member states’ commitment to multilateralism. The Ibero-American community comprises 19 Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking Latin American nations plus Spain, Portugal and Andorra from the Iberian Peninsula.
TREE NEWS update: Cai Qi, a member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China and its Secretariat, met a North Korean Workers’ Party delegation in Beijing on February 6. The delegation was led by Kim Song Nam, a Politburo member and the party’s International Department director.
TREE NEWS reports: A Solana event in Shanghai was halted after promotional campaigns run through domestic entities allegedly violated China’s crypto-related restrictions, an unidentified People’s Bank of China official told China’s Financial News. The official said the promotions breached the country’s rules on cryptocurrency activity. No further details on the event or the entities involved were provided.