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TREE NEWS reports: US equity futures rose modestly, with S&P 500 futures gaining 0.2% and Nasdaq 100 futures adding 0.4%. The move signals a slightly firmer open for Wall Street as investors position ahead of the session.

TREE NEWS reports: South Korea’s benchmark KOSPI index rose more than 4% on the day. The move marks a sharp single-session gain for the Seoul stock market. No further details on the drivers or specific closing levels were provided.

TREE NEWS reports: Japan’s Nikkei 225 opened 0.5% higher, while South Korea’s KOSPI opened up 3.5%. SK Hynix rose more than 6% and Samsung Electronics gained more than 4% in early trade.

TREE NEWS reports: Nikkei 225 futures climbed 1.8% in early trading, pointing to a higher open for Japanese equities. The move reflects gains in the futures market ahead of the cash session.

TREE NEWS reports: Listed storage companies are expanding raw material stockpiles and signing long-term procurement agreements to secure supply chain coordination and delivery. The moves come as sustained AI computing infrastructure buildout drives strong demand for enterprise-grade storage products, with some storage firms reporting rapid business growth. The companies are also optimizing product mix and expanding their customer base.

TREE NEWS update: The Shanghai Stock Exchange’s merger review committee will on Oct. 29 review Orient Securities’ plan to buy 100% of Shanghai Securities via A-share issuance and cash, a deal valued at about 25.1 billion yuan ($3.5 billion). The transaction is one of the year’s landmark industrial consolidation projects, as A-share M&A shifts toward industrial synergy.

TREE NEWS update: Anthropic disclosed Monday that it has filed a Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, giving investors their first detailed look at the AI company’s finances. Traders on prediction market Kalshi assign a 95% probability that the company will formally announce an IPO by the end of 2026, defining that as the SEC declaring the S-1 effective, the offering being priced, or an exchange assigning a ticker. On Polymarket, traders see a 69% chance Anthropic lists and begins trading by Nov. 20.

TREE NEWS update: Anthropic has formally filed for an initial public offering and plans to list on the Nasdaq under the ticker ANT, the company said. The filing revives AI market sentiment, with US stock indices rebounding and the chip index up nearly 3%, while Treasuries and oil prices eased. The listing would make Anthropic one of the largest AI companies to go public.

TREE NEWS reports: Ganfeng Lithium and Tianqi Lithium reported year-on-year net profit growth of 19,540.50% and 3,013.86% respectively for the first three quarters, as lithium salt prices rose significantly year on year on recovering downstream demand. Several lithium miners disclosed third-quarter results by Oct. 26. Demand is shifting from EV-driven to a “EV plus energy storage” dual driver, with robotics and low-altitude economy opening incremental space, a company executive said.

TREE NEWS reports: As of 18:00 on Oct. 26, 129 companies in the A-share pharmaceutical and biotech sector had disclosed third-quarter reports, with more than 40% posting year-on-year profit growth. Overseas licensing deals for innovative drugs are moving from signing to revenue recognition, with multiple drugmakers booking concentrated payments from earlier overseas rights agreements as a key profit driver.

TREE NEWS reports: Morgan Stanley downgraded Brazilian equities to Equal-weight from Overweight after President Lula’s surprise re-election, reversing an upgrade made just three weeks earlier. Strategists including Nikolaj Lippmann wrote in a Monday report that Brazil may face a worsening macroeconomic backdrop: a weaker currency, higher interest rates and an unlikely fiscal rebalancing amid a slowing economy. The bank prefers exporters including Petrobras, Embraer, JBS and Suzano over domestically exposed companies.

TREE NEWS reports: Cadence Design Systems reported third-quarter revenue of $1.633 billion, with GAAP operating margin at 26.2% and non-GAAP operating margin at 44.1%. The company posted a record backlog of $8.2 billion and raised its full-year revenue growth forecast to 21%, lifting its EPS guidance by $0.30 to $8.40. GAAP EPS was $1.05 and non-GAAP EPS was $2.11, while recurring revenue rose 18% year over year.

TREE NEWS reports: Sales of embodied intelligent robots on key platforms in China rose 22.6% year-on-year in the first three quarters, the Ministry of Commerce said. Analysts said the humanoid robot industry is in a critical phase of mass-production validation and deployment, with investment opportunities expected to extend to core components, control platforms and data infrastructure. They advised watching companies’ technology advantages, cost control, batch delivery capability, and order and model-iteration progress.

TREE NEWS reports: Chinese equity ETFs drew more than 280 billion yuan ($38.4 billion) in net inflows in October through Oct. 23, while listed companies bought back over 17 billion yuan of their own shares, Wind data show. With the market’s sustained swings, A-share valuations have fallen to relatively low levels, and analysts say the overall market is below its historical average, making it attractive on both cross-sectional and historical comparisons.

TREE NEWS reports: South Korea releases preliminary third-quarter GDP at 07:00 Beijing time, followed by China’s industrial profits for January-September at 09:30. In the US, September preliminary durable goods orders are due at 20:30, with FHFA and S&P/CS home price indices at 21:00 and September new home sales and the Conference Board consumer confidence index at 22:00. Boeing, UPS, Corning and Freeport report before the US open, while Seagate, NXP and Teradyne report after the close.

TREE NEWS update: Virgin Galactic said its first Delta-class spaceship will arrive at Spaceport America on October 28, marking the start of preparations for flight testing. The company expects the first spaceship to complete its first spaceflight in early Q2 2027.

TREE NEWS reports: Unitree’s shares have climbed about 60% in under two weeks as investors bet OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra will supply the intelligence robots currently lack, turning the stock into a proxy for AI. The rally reflects expectations that the model will function as a brain for robotic hardware.

TREE NEWS reports: FTSE China A50 index futures closed the overnight session up 0.16% at 13,127 points. The move extends the contract’s gains from the previous session, with the index tracking large-cap A-shares. No further details were immediately available.

TREE NEWS reports: US equity index futures closed higher in New York trading on Monday, October 26, with S&P 500 futures up 0.7% and Dow futures gaining 0.23%. Nasdaq 100 futures rose 1.18%, while Russell 2000 futures added 0.3%.

TREE NEWS update: Novo Nordisk lost a US court ruling in its challenge to Eli Lilly’s advertising for weight-loss drugs, the company’s legal effort to restrict a rival’s promotional claims failed. The decision hands Eli Lilly a procedural win in the two drugmakers’ competition over obesity treatments. No further terms of the ruling were disclosed.