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TREE NEWS reports: Paramount Skydance is negotiating a settlement with California officials that would include a commitment to keep the company headquartered in the state, with other terms under discussion covering an editorial board to oversee CNN, theatrical release of 30 Paramount films a year, and the sale of some cable channels. Any deal would likely need the support of all 12 Democratic states suing to block the merger, as well as the Writers Guild.

TREE NEWS update: REX Shares has launched the ASSX fund, offering 2x daily exposure to shares of Bitcoin treasury company Strive. The leveraged ETF gives traders a way to amplify daily bets on the Bitcoin treasury firm’s stock. The fund is tied to Strive, a company that holds Bitcoin on its balance sheet.

TREE NEWS update: Kalshi has filed a proposal to offer perpetual futures tied to individual US stocks, bringing the derivative product to US traders. Coinbase and Bitnomial are pursuing similar products, setting up parallel efforts to list stock-linked perpetual futures domestically.

TREE NEWS reports: Bitcoin ETFs closed the week positive after $433 million in net inflows on Friday, with Fidelity’s FBTC contributing $310.7 million and helping offset earlier withdrawals. Ether funds, by contrast, snapped a four-week inflow streak.

TREE NEWS reports: VanEck said Metaplanet’s executive equity exposure remains well above that of its digital asset treasury peers, even after the company reduced its potential share pool by 41%. The asset manager’s criticism centers on dilution risk tied to executive compensation at the Bitcoin-accumulating firm. Metaplanet has not publicly responded to the assessment.

TREE NEWS update: SpaceX’s weight in the Nasdaq 100 will rise to 2.82% when the index’s quarterly rebalance takes effect next Monday, September 21, up from roughly 1.28% currently. The increase matches the preliminary weights previously published by the index provider. By market capitalization SpaceX is the seventh-largest company in the index at over $2 trillion, but its current index weight does not place it in the top 20.

TREE NEWS update: Grayscale is splitting the shares of its Zcash ETF three-for-one after the fund drew more than $233 million in under a month. The move makes the product more affordable for investors as Wall Street demand for crypto’s hottest privacy trade keeps rising.

TREE NEWS update: Victory Giant Technology said on September 18 that its mSAP workshop in Huizhou is running at a healthy utilization rate with a full order book, serving production of 1.6T optical modules. The Chinese PCB maker said demand for mSAP capacity is strong and it will keep close contact with customers to plan further capacity expansion around their needs.

TREE NEWS update: Victory Giant Technology (胜宏科技) said its equity incentive performance assessment targets were set by management after weighing industry conditions, market competition, the company’s development plans and customer order visibility. Responding to an investor question on whether a 50% year-on-year growth target for this year can be met, the company said management and its core team have firm confidence in achieving the targets, and will push to improve business quality and results by optimizing product mix, raising product yield and delivery capability, and diversifying its customer base.

TREE NEWS update: The General Office of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region People’s Government issued the region’s 15th Five-Year Plan for financial sector development, encouraging listed companies to pursue M&A and refinancing and to develop new quality productive forces. The plan calls for cross-departmental mechanisms to identify and cultivate quality enterprises and listing candidates, and urges listed firms to pay more cash dividends.

TREE NEWS reports: Heineken is in talks to acquire 300 pubs from UK operator Stonegate in a deal valued at about £300 million. The transaction, if completed, would expand the brewer’s directly managed pub estate, adding to its existing Star Pubs & Bars division. Terms remain under negotiation and no agreement has been announced.

TREE NEWS reports: Forty-three Chinese listed companies will see share lockup expiries next week, releasing a combined 15.128 billion yuan ($2.1 billion) in market value at latest closing prices. First Pharma-U leads by unlock ratio at 56.96%, with Yousheng, Juren Xincai and Xinghui all above 20%. Four companies — Hongyuan Pharma, Hainan Expressway, Dawei and Xinghui — swung to first-half profit, while Huichuan Technology posted the largest net profit at 2.81 billion yuan.

TREE NEWS update: Bitget has listed USDT-settled perpetual contracts on six stocks: SDGR (Schrödinger), PATH (UiPath), AGPU (Axe Compute), GNRC (Generac), HUT (Hut 8) and CYPH (Cypherpunk Technologies). The contracts offer up to 20x leverage and 24/7 trading. Bitget now supports 319 stock contract tickers in total.

TREE NEWS reports: Huawei unveiled a new generation of energy and thermal management products for AI data center (AIDC) infrastructure at its Connect conference on September 17, including the Taishan UPS, Hengshan centralized DC UPS, Power Module 5.0, Smart Lithium Battery 5.0 and an AI liquid cooling system. CITIC Securities said in a research note that energy storage and liquid cooling are set to become important incremental segments of AIDC infrastructure, with Huawei proposing a ‘3+1’ reconstruction covering Watt, Heat, Bit and construction models.

TREE NEWS update: Kweichow Moutai’s i-Moutai app will add two new distribution warehouses in Guangzhou and Zhengzhou from Sept. 19, expanding beyond its existing facilities in Guiyang, Nanjing and Beijing. Orders will be shipped from the nearest available warehouse based on actual order conditions. The move is aimed at speeding up delivery for the liquor maker’s direct-to-consumer platform.

TREE NEWS update: Invesco Great Wall Fund Management said Liu Yanchun will step down as deputy general manager effective September 18, 2026, due to a work adjustment, and will focus on investment management. Internal staff cut holdings across all six funds he manages, with Invesco Great Wall Quality Growth A seeing 22.5486 million units redeemed by employees.

TREE NEWS reports: Ethereum spot ETFs drew $144 million in net inflows on September 18 (US Eastern Time), led by BlackRock’s ETHA with $114 million. ETHA’s cumulative net inflows now stand at $12.957 billion. Fidelity’s FETH came second with $26.2449 million for the day, bringing its all-time total to $2.247 billion.

TREE NEWS reports: US spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $433 million in net inflows on Sept. 18, with Fidelity’s FBTC leading at $311 million. FBTC’s cumulative net inflows now stand at $10.362 billion. BlackRock’s IBIT followed with $108 million for the day, bringing its all-time total to $64.125 billion.

TREE NEWS update: Xu Qinsong, president of Huawei’s China terminal business, told staff that some Huawei retail store authorizations will transfer to Seres, which will run Aito sales itself. Xu said Aito will not fully leave the HIMA channel system: while building an independent Aito sales network, a portion of stores will keep selling Aito models in shared HIMA showrooms.

TREE NEWS reports: Bitcoin’s market cap climbed to about $1.63 trillion, up 5.05% over 24 hours, overtaking Tesla to return to the top 15 assets globally by market value, 8MarketCap data show. Tesla shares closed Friday at $364.27, down 0.53%, giving the automaker a market cap of $1.438 trillion.