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TREE NEWS reports: US equity futures moved modestly higher, with S&P 500 futures up 0.3% and Nasdaq 100 futures up 0.4%. The gains point to a slightly firmer open for Wall Street, with technology-heavy names leading the pre-market advance.

TREE NEWS reports: South Korea’s KOSPI extended its advance to 1.6%, with Samsung Electronics shares climbing 3%. The move lifted the benchmark index on gains in the country’s largest listed company.

TREE NEWS reports: CSC Financial said in a research note that A-shares have entered a second recovery phase, as the macro tug-of-war from Middle East geopolitical conflict that pushed up oil prices and US Treasury yields has played out for now, with oil and long-end US yields falling back. It flagged domestic easing and a stable yuan, with the market’s focus returning to earnings, while warning that overseas rates, the durability of the oil pullback and the late-October FOMC meeting remain external risks.

TREE NEWS reports: Huatai Securities said in a Hong Kong equity strategy note that rate volatility has eased after the FOMC meeting but point-level risk persists, and earnings expectations have yet to recover. The brokerage said Hong Kong stocks may see a short-term technical rebound, though its timing and scale remain uncertain, as tightening overseas liquidity and lackluster domestic fundamentals continue to cap valuations.

TREE NEWS reports: Huatai Securities said in an A-share strategy note that the rebound is likely to continue after the Fed rate hike, with tech benefiting as near-term overseas liquidity uncertainty fades. But weak domestic economic and credit data, a narrowing earnings recovery and caution ahead of the National Day holiday should cap upside, it said, keeping a rebound rather than a trend call. Mid-term structural opportunities remain, with a neutral tone.

TREE NEWS reports: Chinese brokerage strategy reports say the A-share rebound window is likely to continue after the U.S. Federal Reserve’s 25-basis-point rate hike last week triggered a ‘bad news exhausted’ rally across major global markets, led by technology shares. With major overseas central banks’ rate decisions now settled, markets are shrugging off macro noise and industry fundamentals are expected to regain pricing power, with earnings-backed tech heavyweights seen catching up. The reports flag third-quarter earnings disclosure as the next key catalyst for a larger-scale rally.

TREE NEWS update: Kraken joined X’s US Cashtag partner program on September 16, letting users who click ticker tags such as BTC on the platform jump via a trading link to the Kraken app or website, where they log in or sign up and complete the purchase. Trades still execute on Kraken’s side. A 2024 UK Financial Conduct Authority experiment involving more than 9,000 consumers found push notifications lifted trading volume 11%, while points and prize draws lifted it 12%.

TREE NEWS reports: Gemini Space Station (ticker GEMI) has fallen about 80% since listing, with its market value dropping from a peak of roughly $4 billion to about $753 million. Second-quarter trading revenue fell 38% year-on-year to $12.5 million, spot trading volume slid to $3.8 billion and custodial assets shrank to $8.4 billion from $18.2 billion. Gemini and its subsidiaries still hold key regulatory licenses and compliance approvals, seen as core assets for a potential acquirer seeking US market access.

TREE NEWS reports: Jane Street Group began providing swap contracts for leveraged ETFs earlier this year, writing about $1.2 billion in notional swaps for roughly 75 leveraged and inverse single-stock ETFs in the second quarter. The firm now holds about 2% of the single-stock ETF segment, trailing Clear Street at roughly 21% and Marex Group at about 11%, as US leveraged ETF assets peaked above $200 billion in the second quarter.

TREE NEWS update: US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said data showing continued strong foreign demand for US assets contradicts claims that capital is fleeing the country, pointing to sustained Treasury auction demand. Bessent said the dollar accounts for 89.2% of global foreign exchange trading, and that Treasury buybacks are meant to add market liquidity and optimize the debt maturity profile rather than directly intervene in the over $30 trillion Treasury market.

TREE NEWS reports: Michael Saylor posted an X message reading “A little more orange” alongside Strategy’s bitcoin purchase record, a signal the market typically reads as a possible new BTC accumulation disclosure. The chart shows Strategy holding about 845,050 BTC as of September 20, bought at an average cost of roughly $75,400, for a total value of about $67.9 billion.

TREE NEWS update: Seres Group director and vice president Kang Bo said AITO remains a core member of the HarmonyOS Smart Mobility family and that Huawei’s terminal unit will continue to empower the brand. Seres holds a 10% stake in Shenzhen Yinwang, which aggregates Huawei’s core smart-vehicle technologies, giving AITO access to Huawei’s latest technology, products and supply guarantees. He added that under the new cooperation model, existing AITO user rights and services such as OTA upgrades are unaffected.

TREE NEWS reports: AI agents entering corporate networks are shifting enterprise security’s control plane from networks and endpoints to identity, data and runtime, with vendors racing to quantify the shift. SailPoint said AI-driven ARR exceeded $70 million, with AI products contributing over 30% of net new ARR, while Palo Alto Networks posted quarterly revenue of $3.41 billion, up 34% year over year, and CrowdStrike’s revenue rose 26% with ARR up 25%.

TREE NEWS update: Grayscale’s Zcash ETF is set for a 3-for-1 forward share split, with shareholders of record receiving two additional shares for each share held at the close of trading on Sept. 28. The split increases the number of shares outstanding while proportionally reducing the per-share price.

TREE NEWS update: BYD sold 188,746 passenger vehicles and pickups overseas in August 2026, up 134.6% year on year, the company said at an investor relations event. Cumulative overseas sales for January through August reached 1,157,954 units. Plants in Uzbekistan, Thailand and Brazil are now in operation, alongside eight roll-on/roll-off vessels in BYD’s own shipping fleet.

TREE NEWS update: Shenghe Resources said its controlling shareholder, the Institute of Multipurpose Utilization of Mineral Resources under the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, has confirmed in writing that it has no plan to transfer control of the company. The clarification responds to foreign media reports, republished by some domestic outlets, that a rare earth enterprise group intended to acquire control of Shenghe and thereby indirectly hold its overseas asset interests.

TREE NEWS reports: Samsung Electronics is expected to at least double its HBM4 and HBM4E production next year from 2025 levels, analyst jukan of Citrini wrote on X. The company plans to raise outsourced cleaning of glass carriers used in HBM production from 20,000 wafers a month this year to 50,000 a month next year. Samsung began mass shipping HBM4 in February and in May provided 12-layer HBM4E samples to customers including Nvidia.

TREE NEWS reports: MicroStrategy (MSTR) was the best-performing component of the Nasdaq 100 over the past month, with its share price surging 48%, as of September 20. The bitcoin-holding software company outperformed every other stock in the index during the period.

TREE NEWS update: Lei Jun announced on September 20 that the Xiaomi 18 Pro series will launch on September 23 at 7 pm, with the new lineup debuting Xiaomi’s HyperOS 4. The announcement sets the launch date and confirms the flagship phones will be the first devices to ship with the new operating system.