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TREE NEWS reports: Thirty-eight listed Chinese companies had disclosed preliminary results for the first three quarters of 2026 as of September 21, with about 60% expecting year-on-year profit growth. AI supply-chain firms stood out, with GPU, packaging and testing, and precision manufacturing companies posting high growth on surging computing demand, while biopharma and new energy also improved on higher volumes and prices.

TREE NEWS reports: Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev said crypto-related prediction contracts are taking a growing share of the platform’s prediction market and that sports contracts could shrink to a minority within a few years. Robinhood’s event-contract revenue rose more than 10x year over year to $156 million in Q2 2026, while contract trades hit 4.7 billion in August, about 15x the year-earlier level. Robinhood runs its prediction market on Kalshi and offers services through Rothera, a joint venture with Susquehanna, and has taken stakes in Crypto.com and its prediction market subsidiary OG.com.

TREE NEWS reports: Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev said crypto event contracts are already outpacing sports bets on the platform and could become its dominant prediction-market category within a few years. Tenev framed crypto as positioned to beat sports at prediction markets’ own game, pointing to current trading volumes as evidence of the shift.

TREE NEWS reports: Bitcoin rose about 7% on Monday, briefly trading above $97,000 for the first time since late January. The coin climbed 6.97% over 24 hours to $80,587.88 after a short squeeze higher at 16:00 Beijing time, peaking at $87,381.02 and approaching January’s highs. Ether gained 5.96% to $2,776.94, touching $2,806.925 after US market hours.

TREE NEWS reports: Strive has increased its bitcoin holdings by 6,400 BTC over the past month.NET. Its SATA unit raised enough funds on the day to purchase another 316 bitcoin. The additions expand the company’s corporate bitcoin treasury.

TREE NEWS update: Fitch Ratings assigned Tesla an initial BBB issuer default rating with a stable outlook. The investment-grade rating is the first from Fitch for the electric-vehicle maker, which had previously been rated below investment grade by the agency’s peers. Tesla’s stock is closely watched by crypto investors as a proxy for risk appetite and as a corporate bitcoin holder.

TREE NEWS reports: At the New York close on Monday, September 21, S&P 500 futures ended up 1.51%, Dow futures gained 0.75% and Nasdaq 100 futures rose 2.82%. Russell 2000 futures added 0.55%. The moves came in the final hours of the New York session.

TREE NEWS update: Coinbase is letting eligible US retail customers request shares at the offer price before trading begins, in a program launched with Oura. Allocations will depend on supply from underwriters and investor demand, the company said. The move gives individual investors access to IPO pricing typically reserved for institutional buyers.

TREE NEWS reports: Cybersecurity-focused exchange-traded funds closed higher, with the Global X Cybersecurity ETF gaining 3.68%, the First Trust Nasdaq Cybersecurity ETF rising 3.22% and the ETFMG Prime Cyber Security ETF adding 3.63%. The moves came in the same session across all three funds, which track baskets of listed security-software and network-protection companies.

TREE NEWS reports: On Monday, September 21, the Nasdaq 100 ETF closed up 2.88% and the emerging markets ETF gained 2.69%, leading US broad asset-class ETFs. The S&P 500 ETF and Barclays US convertible bond ETF rose at least 1.21%, while the 20+ year Treasury ETF added 0.68% and the Russell 2000 ETF gained 0.52%. The US Brent crude oil fund fell 2.81% and the gold ETF dropped 0.7%.

TREE NEWS reports: Among the S&P 500’s 11 sectors, telecom closed up 3.86%, information technology gained 2.46% and consumer discretionary rose 1.49%, the third-best performer. Energy was the laggard, dropping 2.57%.

TREE NEWS reports: On Monday, September 21, most US sector ETFs closed higher, led by a 4.02% gain in the semiconductor ETF. The internet stock index ETF rose 3.02%, the global tech stock index ETF added 2.97%, and the tech sector ETF climbed 2.89%. Consumer discretionary gained 1.3%, while consumer staples slipped 0.41%, regional banks fell 0.48%, and energy dropped 2.3%.

TREE NEWS reports: The Bloomberg Electric Vehicle Price Return Index rose 0.25% to 3,265.91 points on Monday, September 21. The index traced a V-shaped path during Asia-Pacific trading hours and again during US market hours, while overall extending the gains seen since the Asia-Pacific midday session.

TREE NEWS reports: AMD rose 9.9% to close with a market capitalization above the $1 trillion mark for the first time, a round-number psychological threshold. Intel also gained 12% on the day, its largest single-day advance since May.

TREE NEWS reports: Meta shares closed 11% higher, marking the stock’s best single-day performance since April 2025. The move was the standout gain in the session for the social media company.

TREE NEWS reports: Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) shares rose 11% on Wednesday, the stock’s biggest single-day gain since October, on the back of its acquisition deal with Paramount Skydance. The move marks the largest one-day advance for the media company in roughly nine months.

TREE NEWS reports: The Nasdaq 100 rose an initial 2.8%, led by Arm Holdings up 17.5%, ALAB up 12.8%, Intel up 12.5%, Meta up about 12%, Western Digital up 10.7% and AMD up about 10%. The S&P 500 gained 1.5%, with telecom up 4.2% and tech up 2.4%, while energy fell 2.5%. The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index added 4.3% and the memory-chip index rose 2%.

TREE NEWS reports: The Nasdaq 100 extended its advance to 3%, led by Arm Holdings, up more than 16.7%, alongside Meta at 12.9%, ALAB at 12.7% and Intel at 12.6%. Warner Bros. Discovery rose 10.8%, AMD 9.99%, while Qualcomm and Strategy also gained over 9%. The S&P 500 climbed more than 1.6% and the Nasdaq more than 2.4%, with the semiconductor index up over 4.5%.

TREE NEWS update: Coinbase has begun offering IPO shares to eligible US retail traders, with Oura set to be the first listing available through the program. Customers can request shares at the offering price, though the exchange said allocations are not guaranteed. The move gives retail investors a route into new listings that has traditionally been reserved for institutional buyers.

TREE NEWS reports: The Hang Seng Index’s main night session closed up 0.30% at 25,118 points. The Hang Seng Tech Index night session closed up 0.45% at 4,448 points.