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TREE NEWS update: Paramount Skydance reached a settlement with multiple US states over its merger with Warner Bros. Discovery, New Jersey’s attorney general said. The deal includes a court-enforceable five-year commitment to boost domestic film production by at least $1.5 billion; if Paramount misses its annual output target, it must pay $30 million per unfilmed movie and divest Miramax Studios.

TREE NEWS update: A coalition of state attorneys general has reached a settlement with Paramount over antitrust concerns tied to its deal with Warner Bros. Discovery, California’s attorney general said. The settlement resolves the states’ antitrust objections to the Paramount Skydance-WBD transaction. No financial terms or further details were disclosed.

TREE NEWS reports: Meta Platforms shares extended their advance to 10.5% in the latest session. The move marks one of the stock’s larger single-session gains. No further details were immediately available.

TREE NEWS reports: The Nasdaq Golden Dragon China Index rose more than 0.5% on the day, with NXTT jumping 20.15% to lead gains. VNET climbed 10.66%, Agora gained 6.25%, Tuya Smart added 6.10% and Huya advanced 6.04%.

TREE NEWS update: Strive (ASST) bought 1,355 bitcoin, the company said, as it accelerates toward its goal of holding the second-largest corporate bitcoin treasury by year-end. The purchase keeps Strive as the fifth-largest public bitcoin holder, behind Strategy, Twenty One, Metaplanet and MARA.

TREE NEWS reports: AMD shares rose more than 9% intraday on Monday, hitting a record high of $613.92 and pushing the chipmaker’s market capitalization above $1 trillion for the first time. AMD becomes the fourth US chipmaker to reach that level, after Nvidia, Broadcom and Micron. Chip stocks broadly advanced during the US session on continued artificial-intelligence demand.

TREE NEWS update: Coinbase has begun offering IPO share allocations to its US customers, with Oura as the first company featured. The move expands Coinbase beyond secondary-market stock trading into the primary market, following its rollout of pre-IPO derivatives. The company did not disclose the size or terms of the allocation.

TREE NEWS reports: Intel (INTC) shares rose 10.10% intraday to trade at $119.67. The move marked a sharp single-session gain for the US chipmaker’s stock.

TREE NEWS reports: Meta (META) shares rose 7.12% in intraday trading to trade at $713.75. The move marks a sharp single-session gain for the social media company’s stock.

TREE NEWS reports: The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index rose more than 2% on September 21, reaching its highest level in over a month. Arm (ARM.O) gained over 8%, AMD (AMD.O) climbed more than 7%, Micron Technology (MU.O) advanced nearly 5%, and Qualcomm (QCOM.O) added nearly 2%.

TREE NEWS reports: US stocks moved higher intraday on September 21, with the Nasdaq gaining 1.18%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average up 0.30% and the S&P 500 up 0.54%. All three major indices rose together during the session.

TREE NEWS update: Eligible users can now apply for IPO shares at the offering price through Coinbase Capital Markets, the exchange’s licensed broker-dealer, ahead of Oura’s Nasdaq debut. The smart-ring maker said in an updated prospectus that it plans to sell 50 million shares at $40-$44 each under the ticker OURA, implying a valuation of about $13.5 billion at the midpoint.

TREE NEWS update: Bitmine bought 27,562 ETH, bringing its total investments to $17.1 billion and its holdings to more than 4.9% of Ethereum’s circulating supply, the company said. Chairman Tom Lee said the crypto bull market is underway as the firm closes in on its 5% Ethereum supply target.

TREE NEWS update: Strategy purchased $76 million worth of bitcoin, lifting its holdings to within 0.2% of June’s record high. The bitcoin treasury firm’s stack bottomed at 840,447 BTC in August and has since climbed 5,553 BTC. The company remains the largest corporate holder of the asset.

TREE NEWS update: Strategy bought 950 Bitcoin for $75.7 million, resuming purchases after a two-week pause. The company also spent $174 million repurchasing its STRC preferred stock.

TREE NEWS update: Strategy purchased 950 bitcoin for $76 million, lifting its total holdings to 846,000 BTC, the company disclosed. The stash equals about 4% of bitcoin’s 21 million supply cap and is worth roughly $72 billion. The buy extends the firm’s accumulation strategy, which has made it the largest corporate holder of the asset.

TREE NEWS update: JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon is traveling to India this week as the Wall Street bank expands its push into the market, expecting further growth in local deal activity. Dimon will attend JPMorgan’s annual investment conference in Mumbai and meet executives of major Indian conglomerates there. He has visited India regularly in recent years, while the bank keeps adding staff in investment banking and payment solutions locally.

TREE NEWS update: Chinese listed company Xingshuaier announced it is planning to acquire 100% of Dongguan Xiangying New Materials Technology and Dongguan Fanyu Automation Technology via share issuance and cash, with a combined base valuation of 840 million yuan. The targets make PCB tooling equipment and semi-finished consumables. The performance commitment runs 2026-2028 with cumulative non-GAAP net profit of at least 210 million yuan. Trading was halted from the open on Sept. 22, 2026, with a plan due within 10 trading days.

TREE NEWS update: O-Film issued a statement saying false information about the company and its executives has spread across multiple online platforms, damaging its reputation and capital-market image. The company called the claims entirely fabricated, said it has preserved all evidence and reported the matter to government authorities, and vowed to pursue legal action against those who create or spread the false information.

TREE NEWS update: CATL bought back 3,687,462 of its A-shares on September 21, spending about 1.1 billion yuan, the company disclosed. The repurchase covers shares of its Shenzhen-listed A-share stock. No further details on pricing or the buyback program were given.