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TREE NEWS update: Iran’s military said its navy intercepted and struck a US MQ-1 drone on Nov. 13 in the Kohestak area of Sirik, in southern Iran, using a modernized air-defense system. The military said it would not hesitate to defend Iran’s territorial integrity and national interests. No further details on the drone or the outcome of the engagement were given.

TREE NEWS update: Yunda Holding implemented its first share buyback on November 13, 2026, repurchasing 1.6087 million shares, or 0.06% of total share capital. The shares were bought at prices between 6.22 yuan and 6.19 yuan, for a total of 9.9999 million yuan excluding transaction fees.

TREE NEWS update: Anthropic is investigating elevated error rates affecting claude.ai, Claude Code, Claude Console and Claude Cowork, with some users unable to log in to Claude.ai and Claude Code. The company posted a status update at 17:58 UTC+8 on November 13 saying the incident is under investigation, without giving a cause or an estimated recovery time, and said it would provide updates as soon as possible.

TREE NEWS update: openEuler released an operating system built for Agentic Infra, with cumulative domestic installations of openEuler-based OS expected to exceed 22 million units, chairman of the OpenAtom Foundation. Frost & Sullivan forecasts the system will reach a 61% share of China’s new server OS market in 2026. The community counts over 2,200 member organizations and more than 30,000 contributors, spanning finance, telecom and energy.

TREE NEWS update: Bitso has completed its integration with Hyperliquid, allowing its more than 10 million users to trade over 200 perpetual contract markets directly through the Bitso Alpha interface, Hyperliquid co-founder Jeff Yan said. Users can fund trades from their Bitso accounts and take long or short positions with up to 50x leverage on underlyings including crypto assets, the S&P 500, gold and forex.

TREE NEWS reports: The eurozone economy grew 0.4% in the third quarter, matching the preliminary estimate and double what analysts had expected, EU statistics agency Eurostat said Friday. The resilience, despite headwinds including the Iran conflict, gives the European Central Bank room to raise interest rates further to curb inflation. The ECB has already raised borrowing costs twice since the Middle East conflict drove energy prices sharply higher, and officials are signaling another move in December.

TREE NEWS update: Thailand’s draft rules would cap certain stablecoin transfers at $148,000 per day and require transfers only between accounts or wallets belonging to the same person, as part of efforts to curb money laundering. The proposal targets stablecoin movement rather than trading, with the daily limit and same-owner restriction applying to transfers covered by the draft.

TREE NEWS update: Microsoft said Microsoft 365 services affected by an outage have shown initial signs of stabilization. The company said service capacity has not returned to normal levels as traffic is cautiously reintroduced, and health remains intermittent. To protect delayed email during the continued recovery, Microsoft extended the email timeout window to 48 hours.

TREE NEWS update: Yuanjie Technology said it received a purchase order from Client B for high-power laser chips worth 1.744 billion yuan, excluding tax. The order covers the company’s high-power laser chip products. The filing did not disclose the identity of Client B or a delivery schedule.

TREE NEWS reports: The weighted average interest rate on new corporate loans in China was about 2.9% in October, roughly 0.2 percentage points lower than the same period last year. Loan rates remain at a low level.

TREE NEWS update: O-Film announced it won a bid to acquire the 48.9281% stake in Jiangxi O-Film Imaging held by Nanchang Gaotou Construction Engineering for 571 million yuan, raising its ownership from 51.0719% to 100% and making the unit a wholly owned subsidiary without changing the scope of consolidated financial statements. The transaction still requires a formal agreement, payment and registration of the industrial and commercial change.

TREE NEWS update: US President Donald Trump said he could have “ended the war with Iran immediately” but chose to delay action at the request of US allies in the Middle East. In an interview video posted on YouTube on the 12th by US media figure Stephen Smith, Trump said: “I could have ended it immediately, but at the request of the countries I intend to protect, we chose a longer, more civilized approach.”

TREE NEWS update: The Shanghai Stock Exchange said this week it placed funds trading at elevated premiums, including the global chip LOF, under heightened monitoring. The exchange’s weekly disclosure did not specify what actions, if any, it took against the funds or their premium levels.

TREE NEWS update: Wang Zhonglin, deputy chairman of the Environment and Resources Protection Committee of the 14th National People’s Congress, is under disciplinary review and investigation on suspicion of serious violations of discipline and law, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission said. The announcement did not specify the nature of the alleged violations or give a date for the investigation’s start.

TREE NEWS reports: Eurozone third-quarter GDP grew 1.3% year on year, the revised reading confirmed, matching both the initial estimate and expectations. The final figure leaves the bloc’s growth pace unchanged from the first estimate, with no revision to the headline annual rate.

TREE NEWS reports: Eurozone employment was unchanged in the third quarter, with the preliminary quarter-on-quarter reading at 0.0%, down from 0.1% in the prior quarter. The flat print marks a slowdown in job creation across the currency bloc.

TREE NEWS reports: JPMorgan raised its Strategy share holdings by 224,545 shares in the third quarter, a 36% increase, while its position in BlackRock’s bitcoin ETF climbed to 11.4 million shares. The bank disclosed the moves in its quarterly holdings report, putting its ETF stake at a value of $540 million.

TREE NEWS update: Unocoin has suspended deposits and withdrawals after suspect transfers it says were signed and broadcast outside BitGo’s platform. BitGo said its account freeze worked as intended. The Indian crypto exchange did not say when services would resume.

TREE NEWS update: Capchem announced a long-term supply agreement with EVE Energy covering 2026 to 2030, under which it expects to supply about 600,000 tons of electrolyte, with actual order volumes allowed to vary 10% either side of projected demand. EVE Energy will pay an advance within 30 working days of the agreement taking effect, earmarked for Capchem to lock in upstream capacity for core raw materials. Capchem said the deal is expected to positively affect its operating results for the five years from 2026 to 2030.

TREE NEWS update: The U.S. Department of Justice and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission sued Arkansas to halt the state’s enforcement actions against Kalshi, seeking a federal court order that would also bar investigations tied to transactions on CFTC-regulated exchanges. The complaint asks for protections extending beyond Kalshi itself, targeting state probes of activity on federally regulated venues.