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TREE NEWS reports: The ChiNext Index, China’s growth-enterprise board in Shenzhen, extended its gain to 1% on the day. The move marks a broadened advance for the index, which tracks smaller and technology-heavy mainland listings. No further market detail was disclosed.

TREE NEWS reports: The Shanghai Composite opened at 3877.00 on Tuesday, down 0.38%, with other major Chinese benchmarks also starting lower. The Shenzhen Component fell 0.33% to 13409.88 and the ChiNext Index dropped 0.43% to 3297.31. The CSI 300 opened at 4463.62, down 0.37%, while the STAR 50 slipped 0.52% to 1607.85. The CSI 500 and CSI 1000 each declined 0.42%, opening at 7651.46 and 7555.79.

TREE NEWS reports: Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index opened 0.94% lower at 24,480.57 on Thursday, while the Hang Seng Tech Index dropped 1.03%. JD Health fell more than 2%, and Trip.com, Alibaba Health and Meituan each declined 1.9%.

TREE NEWS reports: Taiwan’s benchmark TAIEX weighted index closed up 1.1% at 46,330.69 on the day. The move marks a session gain for the Taiwan Stock Exchange’s main gauge.

TREE NEWS reports: Margin financing balances on the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges rose by a combined 9.18 billion yuan on September 16 to 2.599 trillion yuan. The Shanghai Stock Exchange’s balance stood at 1.333 trillion yuan, up 4.756 billion yuan from the prior trading day, while the Shenzhen Stock Exchange’s balance reached 1.266 trillion yuan, up 4.424 billion yuan.

TREE NEWS update: BYD will continue investing in and expanding its semiconductor business, board secretary and investment chief Li Qian said at a shareholder meeting in Shaoxing on Sept. 16. BYD Semiconductor covers 13 chip categories and 567 automotive-grade products, spanning design, wafer fabrication and packaging. Li said the company’s Xuanji A3, China’s first automotive-grade 4nm smart-driving chip, has entered mass production.

TREE NEWS reports: US stock futures rebounded, with S&P 500 futures rising 0.3%. The move marks a recovery in equity futures after recent weakness. No further details were immediately available.

TREE NEWS update: The Federal Reserve raised interest rates for the first time in three years, with its dot plot and remarks by Kevin Warsh signaling further tightening. US stocks and bonds fell together, the dollar rallied and gold dropped intraday, while AI shares proved relatively resilient. US August retail sales rose 1.2% month-on-month, the largest gain in nearly five months.

TREE NEWS reports: Several Chinese listed companies including Jiaozuo Wanfang, Jinchengzi and Puluton have announced the termination of major asset restructuring plans. Puluton’s shares fell sharply after its cancellation notice. Changing external market conditions and failure to agree on key deal terms were the two main reasons cited, with some deals called off shortly after the restructuring intent was first disclosed.

TREE NEWS update: Salesforce issued a long-term sales forecast projecting revenue of $63 billion in fiscal 2030, ahead of the $61.4 billion analyst consensus compiled by Bloomberg. The guidance sets the software company’s revenue target roughly $1.6 billion above the average Wall Street estimate for that fiscal year.

TREE NEWS update: China Evergrande New Energy Vehicle Group disclosed in a Hong Kong Stock Exchange filing that its total liabilities stood at about RMB 32.72 billion (RMB 327.22 billion) as of June 30, 2026, including RMB 16.283 billion in borrowings and RMB 16.439 billion in trade and other payables. Total assets were about RMB 182 million. At end-2025, liabilities were RMB 329.18 billion against assets of RMB 205 million.

TREE NEWS reports: New fund issuance in China has surpassed 800 billion yuan so far this year, with equity funds accounting for more than half of the total, while “fixed income plus” and FOF products continued to attract inflows. Innovation products are being launched in quick succession, including the first batch of ChiNext computing infrastructure ETFs, the first batch of ChiNext fintech ETFs, and the first batch of CSI New Energy Metals 50 ETFs, all of which have been filed.

TREE NEWS reports: Chinese mutual funds that launched since the third quarter have moved quickly to build positions, with net asset values of several active equity funds shifting markedly. Institutional research activity climbed to a historically high level, exceeding 40,000 site visits in the month to September 15. Semiconductors and electronic equipment manufacturing drew the most attention from institutions.

TREE NEWS update: The National Equities Exchange and Quotations (NEEQ) released its fourth preliminary list of companies moving up to the Innovation Tier, adding 12 firms including Meitong Fragrance, Gudeng Machinery and Bangdi Intelligent, spanning high-end manufacturing, new materials and the digital economy. That brings the cumulative number of companies slated for transfer into the tier this year to more than 220, about half of them national-level “little giant” specialized and sophisticated enterprises, with manufacturers making up over 80%.

TREE NEWS reports: Boeing closed down 3.69% at $201.96 as US equities accelerated losses into the close. CEO Kelly Ortberg said stabilizing the company’s 737 MAX production rate will take longer than expected, with wing production at its Renton, Washington plant the current bottleneck, though Boeing has a plan in place to address it.

TREE NEWS reports: Nuclear services company Holtec has put its planned US initial public offering on hold, people familiar with the matter said. No reason was given for the pause, and no revised timetable, deal size or valuation for the listing was disclosed. Holtec provides nuclear services and storage technology.

TREE NEWS reports: At the Wednesday, September 16 New York close, S&P 500 futures fell 0.42% and Dow futures dropped 1.18%, while Nasdaq 100 futures edged up 0.07%. Russell 2000 futures closed 0.41% lower.

TREE NEWS reports: The S&P 500 fell 0.45% on September 16, its sixth consecutive decline on a Federal Reserve rate-decision day. That marks the longest such losing streak since 2018, when the index dropped on seven straight policy-decision days.

TREE NEWS reports: The United States Brent Oil Fund closed down 2.91% on Wednesday, September 16, leading declines among major US asset-class ETFs. The Dow Jones ETF fell 1.15%, the yen long position dropped 0.69%, the US real estate ETF lost 0.66%, the gold ETF slipped 0.61% and the euro long position fell 0.6%. The Nasdaq 100 ETF, soybean fund and Barclays US convertible bond ETF posted gains of at most 0.08%.

TREE NEWS reports: The US Fed rate-cut winners index closed down 1.79% at 88.51 on Wednesday, September 16. The gauge traded roughly flat from the open until 02:00 Beijing time, then fell steadily after the Federal Reserve’s rate announcement, hitting a session low of 87.61 at 03:26. Constituents fell broadly, with Huntington Bancshares down 5.55%, Citizens Financial Group down 4.84%, Polaris down 4.51% and Truist Financial down 4%.