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TREE NEWS update: Chile’s state-owned copper producer Codelco reported a tailings leak at its Andina Division. The company disclosed the incident without providing further details on the volume of material released or the impact on operations. Andina is one of Codelco’s major copper mining divisions.

TREE NEWS reports: The Polish zloty weakened 0.2% against the euro as National Bank of Poland Governor Adam Glapinski delivered remarks. No further details on the content of his comments or the level of the exchange rate were provided.

TREE NEWS reports: SanDisk, Western Digital and Seagate Technology each fell more than 11% in intraday trading, while AMD dropped 11% to its lowest intraday level since July. The declines hit storage and chip stocks, with no additional details provided on the cause of the moves.

TREE NEWS reports: Sixty-seven Israeli lawmakers have expressed support for former IDF Chief of Staff and Yesh Atid leader Gadi Eisenkot to form a coalition, Israeli media reported on the 5th. The figure exceeds the 61-seat majority in the Knesset.

TREE NEWS update: MUJI China said a customer data breach at the MUJI App in Japan does not affect its operations in China, stating that Chinese member data is stored on independent servers and is not transferred overseas in line with local regulations. The incident is confined to MUJI Japan, and the company said it will not impact the information or experience of MUJI members in China.

TREE NEWS update: Petrobras will import 600 million liters of diesel in November, equivalent to about 125,000 barrels per day, to rebuild inventories after scheduled refinery maintenance, logistics and marketing director Angelica Laureano said. The state-owned oil company had expected to need almost no imports in November following large October purchases, but stronger demand and refinery shutdowns changed its forecast.

TREE NEWS update: China’s National Radio and Television Administration reaffirmed on March 5 its policy of supporting live-action micro-dramas while regulating AI-generated micro-dramas. A senior official of the regulator reiterated in Beijing that its stance on the relationship between the two formats is clear: support live-action productions and regulate AI ones. No further details on the scope of the rules were given.

TREE NEWS reports: The Nasdaq 100 extended its decline to 2.4% on Thursday, while the semiconductor index dropped more than 5.8%. The selloff in technology and chip stocks deepened as the session progressed.

TREE NEWS update: Russia has advised its citizens to avoid traveling to Iran, Interfax reported. The advisory did not specify a reason or provide further details. It was not immediately clear whether the guidance reflects a change in the security situation or is a precautionary measure.

TREE NEWS reports: The semiconductor ETF dropped 4.28% in early US trading, leading declines among sector ETFs. The global tech index ETF and tech sector ETF fell as much as 2.99%, while the internet stock index ETF lost 1.31%. Energy, financials, regional banks and banking ETFs rose by as much as 1.65%.

TREE NEWS update: Israel’s Arab-majority party alliance, the Joint List, said on March 5 it will ask President Isaac Herzog to mandate former IDF Chief of Staff and Yashar party leader Gadi Eisenkot to form a new government. The announcement marks a formal shift in the alliance’s position on who should lead the next Israeli government.

TREE NEWS reports: The Nasdaq 100 fell 1.4% at the U.S. open while the Nasdaq Golden Dragon China Index rose 2.5% to 5,871.98. AI hardware stocks dropped sharply, with Qualcomm down 14% at the open in what could be its biggest one-day decline since 2020, and SanDisk, AMD, Seagate, Western Digital, Micron and SK Hynix falling as much as about 7.2%. Apple rose 1.4% after entering the investment-grade bond market for the first time in over a year, while Microsoft slipped 0.4% after cancelling Nscale orders.

TREE NEWS reports: The S&P 500 opened 9.90 points lower, down 0.13% at 7,678.72. The Nasdaq Composite fell 178.40 points, or 0.69%, to 25,558.11, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average opened up 322.89 points, 0.61%, at 53,679.01. The mixed open split the major US indexes, with the Dow gaining as the S&P 500 and Nasdaq slipped.

TREE NEWS update: Ukraine’s National Bank has declined to support the crypto bill heading to a final vote in the Verkhovna Rada. The NBU wants authority to restrict foreign e-money-like tokens that are unsupervised in their issuing jurisdictions, and says the committee’s text drops an agreed three-operator limit on trading platforms, handing that decision to the NSSMC.

TREE NEWS update: Russian President Vladimir Putin met with senior Iranian security official Mohsen Rezaei at the Kremlin. The meeting was confirmed by Interfax. No further details on the agenda or outcomes were disclosed.

TREE NEWS update: Samsung Wallet’s Stablecoin Account is now live for eligible U.S. Galaxy users, letting them hold and use USDC on the Solana network. The launch makes Samsung the latest major consumer-electronics brand to build stablecoin functionality directly into its wallet. Samsung did not disclose which U.S. states or Galaxy models qualify as eligible.

TREE NEWS update: Aegean Airlines said two of its flights, from Thessaloniki to Milan and from Athens to Vienna, received bomb threats on November 5. The airline immediately coordinated with authorities, and security checks confirmed no explosives were found on board. Both flights have since departed from the airport.

TREE NEWS reports: Bitcoin can move before a Federal Reserve rate decision as expectations shift, with the surprise and the Fed’s message about future policy mattering more than the cut or hike itself. The dynamic means traders watch the gap between market pricing and the actual decision, not just the headline rate change.

TREE NEWS update: The world’s first bionic humanoid robot news anchor was unveiled at the 7th World Media Summit’s AI and Chinese Modernization Forum, with Zhang Yimou serving as chief image designer. The debut marks the shift of an “authoritative information + embodied intelligence” model from concept to physical application, offering a new paradigm for news dissemination in the AI era.