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TREE NEWS update: Guangzhou Automobile Group (GAC) announced it plans to acquire part of a vehicle joint-venture company’s equity held by FAW through a share issuance, alongside raising matching funds. Ahead of the restructuring, GAC Toyota’s general manager and deputy general manager were both reassigned. Wen Dali no longer serves as party secretary, committee member, director or executive deputy general manager of GAC Toyota and returns to GAC headquarters; Wang Jun becomes party committee deputy secretary and general manager of GAC Components.

TREE NEWS reports: Apple’s iPhone 18 Pro series, which just opened pre-orders in China, is already trading below its official launch price on e-commerce platforms. Pinduoduo’s subsidy page lists the 256GB iPhone 18 Pro at 9,699 yuan versus a 9,999 yuan list price, and with a 600 yuan store coupon the final price drops to 9,099 yuan — 900 yuan below Apple’s official price. Orders placed with the subsidy are being accepted, with shipments promised by Sept. 27.

TREE NEWS reports: Anthropic may still go public in 2026, with its IPO timetable unchanged even as AI safety issues have become a prominent topic of the era, multiple sources said. The company’s listing schedule has not been altered.

TREE NEWS reports: The Nasdaq 100 cut its decline to 1% after falling as much as 1.7% during the session. The narrowed loss marks a partial recovery for the tech-heavy index from its steepest intraday drop.

TREE NEWS reports: The North America tech software index ETF rose 2.5% to $104.07, marking a second straight session of gains. The move extends a rebound in the fund tracking North American technology software shares.

TREE NEWS update: Hangzhou Changchuan Technology Co. plans to issue H shares and list on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange Main Board, the company said. The Shenzhen-listed semiconductor test equipment maker disclosed the proposed Hong Kong offering without giving a size, timetable or pricing for the deal. Further details of the listing plan were not provided.

TREE NEWS reports: The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index extended its decline to 6% on the session, marking a sharp selloff in chip stocks. The move reflects broad-based weakness across semiconductor names, with the index’s losses widening as trading progressed. No specific catalyst was cited in the material.

TREE NEWS reports: At the US market open, major sector ETFs traded mixed. Consumer staples and healthcare ETFs each rose nearly 2%, while the semiconductor ETF fell more than 5% and the global tech index ETF dropped over 3%. The technology sector ETF was down nearly 3%.

TREE NEWS reports: The Nasdaq fell 1.2% in early US trading, with the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index down 5.5%. Super Micro dropped about 9%, Intel and SK Hynix about 7%, ASML and Micron about 6%, and Nvidia about 4%. Memory-chip and optical-communications stocks fell broadly: Corning lost about 10%, Coherent about 9%, Marvell and Lumentum about 8%, and Credo about 6%. The Dow slipped 0.25% and the S&P 500 0.7%.

TREE NEWS reports: The S&P 500 opened 45.54 points lower, down 0.59% at 7,611.44, while the Nasdaq Composite fell 314.53 points, or 1.19%, to 26,018.50. The Dow Jones Industrial Average bucked the trend, opening 177.59 points higher, up 0.34% at 52,750.88.

TREE NEWS update: SAIC Volkswagen’s new general manager Wu Yun has signed off on a round of manager-level appointments affecting 20 positions across marketing, product, production planning, financial control and supply chain. Sixteen people received acting appointments, three vacated their current roles with other arrangements pending, and one gave up a concurrent post. The appointments take effect on September 2, 2026.

TREE NEWS update: GAC Group said it signed a letter of intent with FAW Group to acquire part of FAW’s stake in a vehicle joint venture through a share issuance, alongside supporting fundraising. The transaction, still at the planning stage, is expected to constitute a major asset restructuring and a related-party deal without changing GAC’s actual controller or amounting to a backdoor listing. GAC’s A-shares were suspended from trading from the market open on Sept 14, 2026, for no more than 10 trading days.

TREE NEWS update: Oracle has launched a new round of layoffs, with cuts reaching “double-digit” percentages in some teams. The workforce reductions affect multiple teams at the cloud and enterprise software company. Oracle has not publicly commented on the scale or scope of the job cuts.

TREE NEWS reports: Bank of America raised its year-end target for the S&P 500 to 7,400 from 7,100. The revision lifts the bank’s projected level for the US benchmark index for the remainder of the year.

TREE NEWS reports: China’s August aggregate social financing rose 1.66 trillion yuan while yuan-denominated loans increased 60 billion yuan, with the share of equity and bond financing exceeding loans for the first time in the first eight months. The Financial Times said loan growth shifting toward higher quality and slower pace has become the new normal. ECB board members Kazimir and Simkus both said further rate hikes remain possible at any meeting if needed.

TREE NEWS update: Aurora Optoelectronics (奥瑞德) said it plans to issue up to 825 million A-shares to no more than 35 selected investors, raising no more than RMB 868 million. Proceeds would fund RMB 282 million for an Inner Mongolia sapphire production base, RMB 346 million for a western China domestic server cluster project, and RMB 240 million for working capital. The board approved the plan; it still needs shareholder and Shanghai Stock Exchange approval plus CSRC registration.

TREE NEWS update: Jinchengzi announced it has terminated a planned acquisition of a controlling stake in Shenzhen Zhibotaike Technology Co., Ltd. that would have been paid for with shares and cash plus a supporting fundraising. The parties failed to agree on core terms, and neither side bears liability for breach. The company’s shares will resume trading at market open on September 15, 2026, and it pledged not to plan any major asset restructuring within one month of the disclosure.

TREE NEWS update: Strategy repurchased $139 million of its STRC shares while leaving its bitcoin holdings unchanged, the company disclosed. Its total bitcoin position accounts for roughly 4% of the 21 million supply cap, worth approximately $66 billion. The buyback does not alter the company’s bitcoin treasury strategy.

TREE NEWS update: Texas Capital Bancshares will move its primary listing away from Nasdaq to the Texas Stock Exchange, marking the venue’s fifth company listing in a single week. The shift adds a bank holding company to the Texas exchange’s roster as it builds out its listings base.

TREE NEWS update: Xiangshan Co. plans to acquire 100% of Wuluo Smart via share issuance and cash for a provisional total consideration of RMB 800 million, plus supporting fundraising. The target develops and sells AI compute equipment. After the deal closes, Xiangshan will add an AI compute business alongside its existing auto parts operations, forming a dual-driver structure. The sellers have committed cumulative non-GAAP net profit of no less than RMB 400 million for 2027-2029.