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TREE NEWS update: Kalshi has reached an agreement with S&P Dow Jones Indices to add the index provider’s gauges to its financial event contracts, the prediction-market platform said. The deal adds S&P Dow Jones to a growing list of Wall Street firms expanding their involvement in prediction markets. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

TREE NEWS update: Bitmine added 10,452 ETH, bringing its holdings to 4.95% of Ethereum’s total supply, the Tom Lee-linked firm said. Its larger move was repurchasing 2.04 million of its own shares, which it calls the largest equity buyback any crypto treasury company has run.

TREE NEWS update: Microsoft offered voluntary buyout packages to 60,000 workers in its latest cost-reduction round, and the company subsequently confirmed the offer. The move affects a large share of its workforce as the software giant steps up expense cuts.

TREE NEWS reports: Germany’s DAX 30 index closed provisionally 1.22% higher at 25,487.75 on the day. France’s main index gained 1.07%, Italy’s benchmark rose 1.35% with its bank index up 2.2%, and the UK index added 0.73%.

TREE NEWS reports: Europe’s STOXX 600 index gained 0.84% to 641.13 in its preliminary close, with Genmab, ComputaCenter and Technoprobe leading the constituents while EssilorLuxottica and Santander lagged. The euro-zone STOXX 50 rose 1% to 6,129.60, led by Nokia, Siemens Energy and Hermès. The FTSE Eurofirst 300 advanced 0.8% to 2,557.10.

TREE NEWS update: BNB Standard Corporation (ticker: BNC) CEO odagius rang the Nasdaq opening bell on October 26, with Changpeng Zhao, Ella Zhang and the YZi Labs team in attendance. odagius previously worked at YZi Labs for five years. YZi Labs said its backing of BNB Standard is meant to give investors a public-market channel to participate in BNB’s long-term development; the firm has invested in BNB ecosystem projects since 2018, spanning wallets, DeFi, payments and AI.

TREE NEWS reports: The Nasdaq rose 1.3% and the S&P 500 extended gains to 1%, while the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index climbed 3%, as AI-related stocks advanced following Anthropic’s IPO filing. Nvidia gained 3.1%, Broadcom 2.8%, Micron 3.5%, Microsoft 1.1%, Amazon 1% and SpaceX 1.4%.

TREE NEWS reports: The North America Tech Software Index ETF rose about 1.2% intraday, hitting a session high of $111.88 and approaching its October 12 intraday peak of $113.70. The move reflects strength in technology software shares.

TREE NEWS reports: The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index rose 3% intraday, with Nvidia up 3.11%, Broadcom 2.83%, Micron 3.47%, Intel 3.23%, AMD 2.34%, Qualcomm 2.09%, TSMC 2.04% and ASML ADR 2.46%. The memory chip index gained 3.2%, the AI software pioneers index 1.5% and the AI winners index 2.7%, while the S&P semiconductor equipment index added 3%. The S&P 500 rose 1%, the VIX fell 8.0% to 17.89, the Dow added 0.5%, the Nasdaq rose 1.3% and the Nasdaq 100 1.4%.

TREE NEWS update: Anthropic filed its S-1 with the SEC on October 26 for a Nasdaq Global Select Market listing under the ticker “ANT,” with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley as lead underwriters among 21 banks. The filing names five co-founders as selling shareholders of Class A common stock and says the company will receive no proceeds from their sales. Share count and price range were left blank, and the primary-to-secondary split is not yet confirmed.

TREE NEWS reports: The Nasdaq 100 rose as much as 1% on the day, setting a new intraday high. The move extends the index’s advance and marks its strongest level of the session. No further details were immediately available.

TREE NEWS update: Bitmine purchased 10,452 ETH, with chairman Tom Lee stating the crypto bull market is underway. The company’s combined crypto, cash, marketable securities and other investments totaled $15 billion as of Oct. 25.

TREE NEWS update: Anthropic PBC has filed for an IPO and warned in its prospectus that its technology carries existential risks. The company flagged multiple “risks to humanity,” including AI models that may try to “resist shutdown” or “conceal or manipulate information,” and said its systems could operate in “unintended, misaligned or autonomous ways” that pose “catastrophic or existential risks to humanity” without adequate safeguards and oversight. Anthropic is seeking to tap public-market financing to expand its capital base.

TREE NEWS update: Harvest STAR Bond ETF completed the Shenzhen Stock Exchange’s first bond ETF pledged agreement repo transaction on the day the exchange added bond ETFs to its eligible collateral list. The trade marks the official launch of the bond ETF pledge financing function on the Shenzhen market, giving institutions a new route to mobilize existing assets.

TREE NEWS update: CICC plans an interim 2026 profit distribution of RMB 0.26 per share (tax included), for a total payout of RMB 2.062 billion based on 7.931 billion shares after its share-swap mergers with Dongxing Securities and Cinda Securities. If the total share count changes, the company will keep the total distribution unchanged and adjust the per-share amount accordingly.

TREE NEWS update: Anthropic made its IPO filing public, revealing plans to list on Nasdaq under the ticker ‘ANT’. The S-1 shows revenue rose from $1.2 billion a year earlier, and a share structure that leaves a trust and the co-founders in control of the company.

TREE NEWS reports: Brazil’s small-cap stock index fell 30% on Thursday, marking its largest single-day decline on record. The drop in the small-cap gauge far outpaced moves in the country’s broader equity benchmarks. No further details on the cause or the specific index level were immediately available.

TREE NEWS reports: Tesla stock climbed 5.8% on Thursday, reaching its highest level since July 16. The gain marks a fresh multi-week high for the electric-vehicle maker’s shares.

TREE NEWS update: Rockchip reported first-three-quarter revenue of RMB4.449 billion, up 41.64% year on year, with net profit attributable to shareholders rising 70.90% to RMB1.332 billion. Non-recurring net profit reached RMB1.301 billion, up 72.09%. In the third quarter alone, revenue was RMB1.573 billion, up 43.57%, and net profit rose 90.49% to RMB473 million.

TREE NEWS reports: The three major US indexes opened higher, with the Dow up 0.2%, the S&P 500 up 0.25% and the Nasdaq up 0.28%. Brazilian companies listed in the US fell sharply, with XP down over 52%, PagSeguro Digital down over 33%, Itaú Unibanco down over 23% and Petrobras down over 17%. SK Hynix rose over 2% on reports it is preparing a 50-60 trillion won shareholder return plan, while Meta edged lower as it seeks up to $95 billion in equity financing to support AI spending.