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TREE NEWS update: CK Hutchison Holdings issued a statement on October 15 saying rumours circulating online that chairman Li Ka-shing had died are “utterly untrue.” The company’s public relations department said Li has no plans for a public appearance to respond to the claims.

TREE NEWS update: China and Russia held their 28th round of foreign policy consultations in Moscow on October 14, 2026. Chen Song, director-general of the Policy Planning Department at China’s Foreign Ministry, met with Drobinin, head of the Policy Planning Department at Russia’s Foreign Ministry. The two sides exchanged views on the international situation, their respective foreign policies and other issues of mutual concern.

TREE NEWS reports: Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee member Greene said the UK budget could have a significant impact on the outlook for spare capacity in the economy. The remark points to how fiscal decisions feed into the central bank’s assessment of slack and, in turn, its monetary policy stance.

TREE NEWS update: China’s Commerce Ministry spokesperson He Yadong said on the 15th that Beijing is willing to keep facilitating rare earth export licence approvals for the European Union, and expects the EU to reciprocate on key dual-use licensing cases involving China. He said the two sides will keep using their export-control dialogue mechanism to promote bilateral trade in dual-use items.

TREE NEWS update: Chinese Premier Li Qiang will make an official visit to Uzbekistan on October 17-18 at the invitation of Uzbek Prime Minister Abdulla Aripov, the Foreign Ministry announced. Li will also visit Tajikistan and attend the 25th meeting of the SCO Council of Heads of Government, and travel to Russia for the 31st regular China-Russia prime ministers’ meeting.

TREE NEWS reports: China’s stock of foreign direct investment equity reached 26.8 trillion yuan, ranking second globally and marking a sixth consecutive year of growth, the Ministry of Commerce said at its regular press briefing on the 15th. A total of 461,000 foreign-funded enterprises filed annual reports for 2025, up 5.7% year on year.

TREE NEWS reports: China’s three major A-share indices closed lower, with the ChiNext Index falling 2.92%, the Shenzhen Component down 2.43% and the Shanghai Composite off 1.59%. More than 5,100 stocks declined across the Shanghai, Shenzhen and Beijing exchanges, while total turnover exceeded 1.64 trillion yuan. Broad-based ETFs drew heavy late-session volume, with E Fund’s ChiNext ETF and ChinaAMC’s STAR 50 ETF each trading over 10 billion yuan, and E Fund’s CSI 300 ETF topping 15 billion yuan, a near nine-month high.

TREE NEWS reports: Chinese commodity futures closed broadly lower, with the main Shanghai silver contract falling more than 5%. Apple, polysilicon and methanol each dropped over 4%, while eggs fell nearly 4%. Lithium carbonate, pure benzene, crude oil, platinum, asphalt, Shanghai tin and coking coal all declined more than 3%, with container shipping Europe routes up over 2%.

TREE NEWS reports: European equities opened lower on the day, with the Euro Stoxx 50 down 1%. Germany’s DAX fell 0.6% and France’s CAC 40 slipped 0.2%, while the UK’s FTSE 100 opened flat.

TREE NEWS reports: The Shanghai Composite closed down 1.59% at 3,707.48, with the Shenzhen Component dropping 2.43% to 11,816.79 and the ChiNext Index falling 2.92% to 2,783.17. Smaller-cap gauges led the decline, as the CSI 500 slid 3.02% to 6,769.25 and the CSI 1000 lost 3.28% to 6,678.65. The CSI 300 closed 1.23% lower at 4,166.01 and the STAR 50 fell 1.50% to 1,359.52.

TREE NEWS update: China’s National Development and Reform Commission said domestic gasoline and diesel prices will remain unchanged on Oct 15, 2026. Since the last adjustment on Sept 24, the Middle East geopolitical situation has been complex and volatile, with international crude prices rebounding sharply after a brief pullback. Based on international oil price movements, retail prices for gasoline and diesel were left unadjusted this round.

TREE NEWS reports: E Fund’s CSI 300 ETF (510310) saw trading volume surge past 12 billion yuan in late-session trading, more than 14 times the previous day’s turnover. The sharp spike came as the session headed into the close.

TREE NEWS reports: US Treasuries led gains across global bond markets as a deepening stock selloff drove demand for haven assets. In early Asian trading on Thursday, the benchmark 10-year Treasury yield fell as much as 10 basis points to 5.09%, with other maturities also declining and dragging the Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index lower. Government bonds in Japan, Australia and New Zealand also rose.

TREE NEWS reports: France’s final September consumer price index came in at -0.3% month-on-month, matching the preliminary reading. The confirmation leaves the month-on-month decline unchanged from the initial estimate, with no revision to the headline figure. The data covers September 2025.

TREE NEWS reports: Turnover in Chinese equity ETFs topped 167 billion yuan, up nearly 40% from 119.3 billion yuan the previous day, marking the highest level in about two months. The prior peak was 208.9 billion yuan on August 19. The figures cover overall stock-type ETF trading volume.

TREE NEWS reports: E Fund ChiNext ETF (159915) and China AMC STAR 50 ETF (588000) each exceeded 10 billion yuan in daily turnover, the first time since August 19 that both broad-based ETFs crossed the 10 billion yuan mark in a single session. The turnover figures make the pair among the most actively traded ETFs in the Chinese market.

TREE NEWS reports: Japan’s Nikkei 225 closed 4.9% lower at 64,425.95, while the broader Topix fell 2.4% to 3,999.34. South Korea’s Kospi dropped 7.6% to close at 5,554.22. The three benchmarks ended the session sharply lower.

TREE NEWS reports: The main egg futures contract on the Dalian Commodity Exchange dropped 5%. The move marks a sharp single-session decline in the exchange’s egg contract, which tracks Chinese egg prices. No further details on the cause or trading volumes were immediately available.

TREE NEWS reports: German government bonds opened higher, pushing the 10-year Bund yield down 7 basis points to 3.40%. The move marks a sharp drop in euro-area benchmark borrowing costs at the start of the trading session.

TREE NEWS update: The 2026 Quant Industry High-Quality Development Conference was held on October 15 in Shanghai’s Xuhui West Bund under the theme “Intelligence Drives the Frontier, Data Inspires Finance.” More than 300 guests from leading domestic quantitative institutions and technology companies attended, discussing AI applications, frontier large models and GPU computing upgrades. The event explored how the securities industry can leverage its “finance plus technology” advantages to support new quality productive forces.