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TREE NEWS reports: The Africa CDC reported on October 8 that confirmed Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ituri and North Kivu provinces fell 24% and 19% respectively over the past three weeks, but active transmission continues in 47 of 64 affected health zones. About 60% to 70% of reported Ebola deaths occurred outside health facilities, indicating many infections remain undetected and contact tracing is insufficient.

TREE NEWS reports: The dollar fell 0.15% against the yen to 157.84 in New York late trade on Thursday, October 8, within a daily range of 158.37 to 157.52. The pair traced an n-shaped session, spiking in the hours after 10:00 Beijing time and then dropping sharply from its daily high after 00:00. The euro slipped 0.01% and sterling 0.05% versus the yen, while the yen gained 0.17% against the offshore yuan.

TREE NEWS reports: The Bloomberg Grains Subindex closed down 0.51% at 33.0666 in late New York trading on Thursday, October 8. CBOT soybean futures led the decline with a 0.81% drop, while corn fell 0.45% and wheat slipped 0.42%.

TREE NEWS reports: The ICE US Dollar Index fell 0.13% to 102.107 at the New York close on Thursday, October 8, trading in a range of 102.467 to 102.033. The gauge has steadied near six-day highs after touching 102.535 on October 5, its highest since April 2025. The Bloomberg Dollar Index edged up 0.01% to 1,223.97.

TREE NEWS reports: The Hang Seng Index main futures contract closed its night session up 0.12% at 23,802 points. The Hang Seng Tech Index main futures contract closed down 0.22% at 4,072 points.

TREE NEWS update: Russia’s consumer rights and public health watchdog said on the 7th that the epidemiological situation in Irkutsk region is stable and poses no health risk, and that preventive measures in the regional capital Irkutsk are being lifted. The region had reported a case of “unknown-origin pneumonia.” The watchdog said on the 6th that an ill employee of the Irkutsk anti-plague research institute had been diagnosed with that condition.

TREE NEWS reports: The onshore yuan (CNY) closed at 6.7036 per US dollar at 03:00 Beijing time, up 14 pips from the pre-holiday night-session close. Turnover for the session totaled $33.767 billion.

TREE NEWS reports: JPMorgan analysts estimate roughly $50 billion has flowed into digital assets in 2026, an annualized pace of about $66 billion, up from $52 billion in May but still about half of last year’s rate. ETF flows have improved since August and turned net positive year-to-date, while CME bitcoin and ether futures institutional positioning has rebounded over the past two months. Listed-company treasuries were the main buyers, and bitcoin miners sold about $1.8 billion net this year.

TREE NEWS reports: JPMorgan analysts estimate roughly $50 billion has flowed into digital assets so far this year, equivalent to an annualized pace of $66 billion. The bank’s analysts said momentum is improving heading into the fourth quarter.

TREE NEWS update: US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Iran believed it held leverage in the Strait of Hormuz, but that the United States has taken it away. “We control the Strait of Hormuz,” Hegseth said, adding that Iran does not hold the leverage it thought it had. The remarks address the strategic waterway through which a large share of global oil shipments passes.

TREE NEWS reports: WTI November crude futures settled up $3.21, or 3.64%, at $91.49 a barrel. Abu Dhabi’s Murban crude futures rose 3.79% to $110.73 a barrel. NYMEX November natural gas settled at $3.1680 per million British thermal units, while November gasoline closed at $3.3160 a gallon and heating oil at $4.8829 a gallon.

TREE NEWS reports: Shanghai Futures Exchange crude oil futures for the 2611 contract closed the night session down 0.62% at 732.80 yuan per barrel. Shanghai gold futures ended the night session 0.04% lower, while Shanghai silver futures fell 1.21%.

TREE NEWS update: Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on the evening of October 8 that the Ukrainian capital has entered a “survival emergency mode” as authorities prepare for possible long-term disruptions to electricity, heating and water supplies. Klitschko said the city is moving to respond to the risk of prolonged outages across essential services.

TREE NEWS update: Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian met Vladimir Putin in Turkmenistan, where the two leaders discussed expanding economic and strategic cooperation in energy, agriculture, transport and trade, and agreed to accelerate joint projects. Putin said Russia supports Iran in resolving the Middle East crisis.

TREE NEWS reports: LSEG Lipper reported that leveraged loans took in $1.93 billion of net inflows in the week ended October 7, the largest weekly haul in 20 months. The figure marks the strongest demand for the asset class since early 2024. No further breakdown of the inflows was given.

TREE NEWS update: European Commission fiscal affairs chief Valdis Dombrovskis urged eurozone members to respect budget constraints, rejecting proposals from Italy and Greece for greater fiscal flexibility. He stressed the need for fiscal prudence, especially given current bond market developments, and said he would study the Italian and Greek proposals in depth. The discussion comes as eurozone governments face sharply rising borrowing costs.

TREE NEWS update: Venezuela’s acting president, Delcy Rodríguez, said the country expects to receive $12 billion in combined public and private financing over the next two years. Rodríguez also projected that the economy will grow 6.5% in the third quarter of 2026.

TREE NEWS update: Blue Origin raised a funding round at a $140 billion valuation, adding $87 billion to Jeff Bezos’s fortune and making him the world’s second-richest person. Bezos now holds $368.5 billion, overtaking Alphabet co-founder Larry Page and trailing only Elon Musk at $1.02 trillion. Investor enthusiasm for space companies has driven wealth gains for both Bezos and Musk this year.

TREE NEWS update: St. Louis Fed President Alberto Musalem said financial conditions have tightened moderately and in an orderly way, but remain loose and are still supporting economic growth. Musalem made the remarks in comments published Wednesday. He did not indicate a change in his outlook for monetary policy.

TREE NEWS update: Mohammad Eslami, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, said on October 8 that Iran will not abandon uranium enrichment or hand over the uranium it holds. “Enrichment is an indispensable part of the nuclear process and we will never give it up in any way,” Eslami said, adding that without the starting point of that process there could be no claim to a nuclear industry.