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TREE NEWS reports: Morgan Stanley’s chief financial officer said the firm took in about $500 billion in net new assets over the first nine months of the year. The figure was disclosed by the bank’s CFO and covers net new assets across the firm’s wealth management business. No further breakdown of the inflows was provided.

TREE NEWS update: The European Commission announced on October 14 that it proposes delaying by one year parts of the EU Methane Emissions Regulation covering fossil fuel importers, to ease administrative burdens on companies and member states and reduce pressure on energy supply. The postponed provisions mainly cover methane monitoring, reporting and verification obligations for natural gas, oil and coal importers, plus methane intensity reporting for importers and EU-based producers.

TREE NEWS reports: US September core CPI rose 0.33% month over month, above nearly all Wall Street forecasts and marking a second straight upside surprise, after a 0.29% gain in August. The reading strengthens the case for one more Fed rate hike this year, when nearly all officials projected an additional increase in their rate forecasts at last month’s unanimous vote.

TREE NEWS update: Two Singapore-registered container ships were struck by unidentified projectiles while transiting the Strait of Hormuz, and one of them subsequently sank, Singapore’s Maritime and Port Authority said in a statement late on the 14th. The agency confirmed the vessels were hit while passing through the strait.

TREE NEWS update: Beijing Party Secretary Yin Li met with Walmart President and CEO John Furner on October 14. Yin said the city is accelerating its push to become an international consumption center, optimizing the spatial layout of commercial resources and rolling out policies on 15-minute community life circles, upgrading supermarket formats and building a modern commercial distribution system to create a favorable environment for retailers.

TREE NEWS reports: US stocks opened lower after CPI came in above expectations, firming rate-hike bets, with the Dow down 0.2%, the S&P 500 down 0.5% and the Nasdaq down 0.6%. Bank of America fell about 8%, its biggest drop since April 2025, on weaker-than-expected third-quarter results, and Morgan Stanley slid about 5% after reporting. Memory and optical names fell broadly, with SK Hynix down 4% and Marvell down 3%.

TREE NEWS reports: The S&P 500 opened down 31.27 points, or 0.40%, at 7,774.18. The Nasdaq Composite fell 172.74 points, or 0.63%, to 27,031.64, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average opened 14.65 points higher, up 0.03%, at 51,684.75.

TREE NEWS update: Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov said on the 14th that the content and scope of a Russia-Ukraine “energy ceasefire” have not been published, but work on it continues. He said Russia-Ukraine negotiations are proceeding intermittently with no agreed meeting yet scheduled, adding that it is too early to conclude that US military support for Ukraine has changed.

TREE NEWS update: White House National Economic Council director Kevin Hassett said the headline inflation figures were disappointing, while pointing to good news beneath the top-line numbers. Hassett said the energy shock was the main story of the day, and that the economy’s underlying strength remains evident.

TREE NEWS reports: China’s mainland smartphone shipments fell 12% year-on-year to 59.3 million units in the third quarter of 2026, the lowest for the period since 2013. Only Huawei and Apple among the top five brands posted positive growth, as the market split sharply between gainers and decliners.

TREE NEWS reports: Former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak told the Bloomberg New Economy Forum that the rules-based international order may have ended, calling US President Trump a symptom rather than the cause. India’s External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar said the US has repositioned itself and countries must reassess ties with Washington. Blackstone President Jon Gray and Fed Governor Christopher Waller warned that large fiscal deficits in the UK, France and Europe pose bond-market risks.

TREE NEWS reports: Traders have fully priced in two Federal Reserve rate hikes by the end of January. The pricing reflects a sharply hawkish shift in rate expectations for the coming months.

TREE NEWS update: Zhang Huizhong, former vice president of Shanghai Construction Group Co., Ltd., has been expelled from the Communist Party and dismissed from public office, Shanghai’s municipal discipline inspection and supervision commission said. The commission opened a disciplinary review and investigation into Zhang over serious violations of party discipline and laws.

TREE NEWS update: China’s financial authorities have not issued any nationwide unified arrangement on the pace of financial investment growth or the duration of newly added bonds at small and mid-sized banks, an informed person said. Market chatter had claimed some provincial regulators told such banks that financial investment growth must not exceed loan growth and that new bond duration must not exceed existing duration. Under market principles, small banks’ bond investment decisions based on their own balance sheets fall within their operational autonomy, the person said.

TREE NEWS reports: Spot silver fell 3.0% intraday to $57.36 an ounce. The move marks a sharp single-session decline for the precious metal, which trades around the clock across global markets.

TREE NEWS reports: Shanghai silver and tin fell nearly 3% at the open of China’s night futures session, with bitumen down more than 2%. Coking coal, Shanghai gold, soda ash, coke and wood pulp each dropped over 1%. Fuel oil and ethylene glycol rose more than 1%, while low-sulfur fuel oil gained nearly 1%.

TREE NEWS reports: US inflation accelerated to 3.7% in September, with core inflation at 2.6% year over year. Gasoline prices accounted for more than half of the monthly headline increase, the data showed. The pickup in headline inflation was driven largely by energy costs, while the core reading held at a slower annual pace.

TREE NEWS reports: China’s aggregate financing rose by 3.55 trillion yuan in September, with new yuan loans at 1.08 trillion yuan, both rebounding sharply from the prior month. Meanwhile, US September CPI came in at 3.7% year-on-year, with core CPI at 2.6%, beating expectations and driving up bets on an October rate hike. ASML posted Q3 profit of 4.96 billion euros, far above expectations, and raised its full-year outlook.

TREE NEWS reports: The US 10-year Treasury yield rose 10 basis points on the day to 5.31%. The move marks a sharp single-session increase in the benchmark yield that underpins global borrowing costs and risk-asset valuations.

TREE NEWS reports: Gold (XAUUSD) fell to $4,100 per ounce and was last quoted at $4,095.56, a 2.1% drop over 24 hours. The move marks a decline in the precious metal’s price over the past day, with the spot price sitting just below the $4,100 level.