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TREE NEWS reports: In the night session, commodity futures opened higher, with TSR 20 rubber leading gains at over 2%. Rubber rose nearly 2%, while coking coal, polypropylene, Shanghai tin, Shanghai silver, and coke each climbed more than 1%. Asphalt and glass fell more than 1%.

TREE NEWS update: UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham proposed during a visit to Berlin that Germany join the Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP), which aims to develop a new stealth fighter. GCAP currently involves the UK, Italy and Japan. Germany has been seeking an alternative since its joint fighter project with France collapsed this summer after prolonged disputes.

TREE NEWS update: Voting opened on October 9 local time in the Czech Republic’s nationwide municipal and regional elections, with voters electing members of town and local councils. At the same time, Senate elections are being held in 27 constituencies to fill one-third of the chamber’s seats.

TREE NEWS update: Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it will strike all “violating” vessels in the region, with the scope extending beyond the Strait of Hormuz. The force did not specify which ships or flags would be targeted. The statement raises the risk of disruption to shipping through the world’s most important oil chokepoint.

TREE NEWS reports: WTI crude futures erased an earlier 1.5% decline and turned higher, trading up 0.23% at $91.586 a barrel. The intraday reversal left the US benchmark in positive territory after the session’s earlier selloff.

TREE NEWS update: Beijing unveiled a “For-Elderly Laboratory” on October 9 at the 2026 Beijing Elderly Care Service Industry Development Sijiqing Forum, held under the theme “Global Governance of Aging and Beijing’s Practice under the Vision of a Community with a Shared Future for Mankind.” The laboratory was officially inaugurated during the forum in Beijing. No further details on its mandate or funding were disclosed.

TREE NEWS update: Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian proposed creating a “CIS+1” mechanism at the CIS Council of Heads of State meeting in Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan, on 9 October. Attending the summit as an invited guest for the first time, he called for a flexible and efficient dialogue framework, dubbed “CIS countries + Iran,” to boost cooperation in transit transport, energy, science and technology, environmental protection, tourism and cultural exchange.

TREE NEWS update: Leaders of the Commonwealth of Independent States signed a document in Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan, on the 35th anniversary of the bloc’s founding, adopting a declaration on the occasion. The declaration states that the CIS is committed to promoting strategic partnership among member states and serves as a unique platform for dialogue and cooperation based on equality and mutual respect. The signing took place during the CIS Council of Heads of State meeting.

TREE NEWS update: Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it targeted a liquefied petroleum gas tanker in the Strait of Hormuz several hours earlier. The IRGC statement, released without further detail, marks an attack on commercial shipping in the key oil and gas transit chokepoint. No casualty or damage figures were given.

TREE NEWS update: Guangdong Party Secretary Huang Kunming said on October 9 at the province’s advanced manufacturing conference in Guangzhou that the province will focus on cultivating and opening application scenarios and building new infrastructure including computing networks. He said the aim is to make Guangdong the preferred base for new technologies to scale from breakthroughs to broad application, supported by basic research, core technology breakthroughs and commercialization.

TREE NEWS reports: Traders have reduced their wagers that the Bank of Canada will raise interest rates before the end of the year, scaling back expectations for further tightening. The shift in positioning follows the latest repricing in Canadian rate markets. No specific rate level or policy date was given.

TREE NEWS update: Tianfu Communication said in an investor relations filing that recently rumored overseas import and export policy restrictions do not constrain optical device products and do not affect its business. The company said its main business is the R&D, production and sale of passive and active optical devices. The policy in question does not cover such products, it said.

TREE NEWS reports: Canada’s employment fell by 68,300 in September, against expectations of a 10,000 increase. The drop marks a sharp reversal from the forecast gain and points to weakening labour-market conditions in the country.

TREE NEWS update: Videos on the Dongchedi app could not be played on Huawei phones, with the page showing a message that the function is “gradually being opened.” A person familiar with the matter said the Hongmeng version of the Dongchedi app has not yet connected the playback function for videos sourced from Douyin, so some videos bearing the Douyin label cannot be played for now. The issue is unrelated to the video content and is not a case of the HarmonyOS system blocking the videos.

TREE NEWS reports: Shenzhen’s total electricity consumption reached 103.042 billion kWh in the first three quarters of 2026, up 6.4% year on year. It is the first time the city has surpassed 100 billion kWh within the first three quarters of a year.

TREE NEWS update: The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has released an international standard covering commissioning and testing procedures for electrolytic ballast water management systems (BWMS) aboard ships. The standard was led by China, with experts from the United States, Germany, Canada, Switzerland, Norway and Denmark participating in its development. The standard falls under the ISO ship and marine technology framework.

TREE NEWS update: Qichacha Technology Co. and its sponsor CITIC Securities have withdrawn the company’s application for an initial public offering on the Shanghai Stock Exchange main board, prompting the exchange to terminate its review of the listing. The withdrawal comes about a year after the company’s previous listing attempt.

TREE NEWS update: The US Treasury Department has appointed Judy Shelton as an adviser to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. The appointment places Shelton, a former nominee to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, in a senior advisory role at the department. No further details of her remit were given.

TREE NEWS update: The European Union Aviation Safety Agency said on the 9th it had updated its safety warning for Saudi Arabian airspace, widening the areas where it advises airlines to avoid flying. The move follows recent attacks by Yemen’s Houthi movement on Saudi targets including Riyadh airport. The updated warning covers a broader set of airspace zones.

TREE NEWS update: China is deepening its participation in ISO and IEC standardization work for the low-altitude economy, pushing international standards through proposal, drafting and publication stages. A drone sense-and-avoid system jointly led by China filled a gap in existing international standards, while a Chinese-proposed UAS license and safety-module testing method became the first international standard proposal in the drone identification field to be approved for development.