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TREE NEWS reports: Euro-area government bonds extended their rally, with the French 30-year yield dropping 10 basis points to 5.30%. The move marks a continued decline in long-dated French borrowing costs.

TREE NEWS update: Saudi Arabia’s General Authority of Civil Aviation said Najran and Jizan airports were attacked on Monday night. Three people were injured in the strikes, and reports of property damage were recorded. The authority did not specify the type of attack or who was responsible.

TREE NEWS reports: Reliance Industries’ telecom and digital unit Jio is seeking a valuation of about $114 billion in its planned initial public offering. The IPO would rank among the largest listings by an Indian company, with the offering tied to the conglomerate controlled by Mukesh Ambani.

TREE NEWS update: China’s National Development and Reform Commission is advancing a long-term mechanism to let private enterprises participate in major infrastructure projects, Li Hui, head of the NDRC’s private economy development bureau, said. The commission is pushing to open competitive infrastructure sectors fairly to market entities, so firms of different sizes and specialties can find a role. Turning that new space into real returns requires sustained effort on three fronts, Li said.

TREE NEWS update: A rare Apple-1 computer is up for online auction at Bonhams from October 4 to 14, with an estimated price of $500,000 to $800,000. The machine was bought by its original owner in 1976 and its motherboard carries the signature of Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. Apple’s first computer product, sold as an assembled circuit board for $666, fewer than 75 confirmed examples survive.

TREE NEWS update: China Railway Nanchang Group Co. added 397 passenger trains, including 15 overnight high-speed services, on October 6 as Jiangxi and Fujian provinces hit a return-travel peak on the sixth day of the National Day holiday. The bureau expected to carry 1.55 million passengers that day.

TREE NEWS update: China’s deputy permanent representative to the UN, Sun Lei, told the General Assembly’s Second Committee on Wednesday that implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is severely lagging and the North-South development gap is widening. Speaking during the committee’s general debate, Sun called on the international community to inject new momentum into global development efforts, and put forward four proposals.

TREE NEWS reports: WTI crude oil fell 1.0% during the session to trade at $88.52 a barrel. The intraday decline marks a pullback in the US benchmark, with the price quoted at $88.52 at the time of the move.

TREE NEWS update: European Central Bank chief economist Philip Lane said the downside risks to economic growth have not yet materialized. He also said broad fiscal expansion does not help with the inflation problem. Lane’s remarks address the euro area’s growth outlook and the interaction between fiscal policy and price stability.

TREE NEWS reports: The Bank for International Settlements published an eight-page research brief on Oct. 1, 2026, finding that 46.4% of disclosed AI inter-company investment value between 2021 and 2025 coincided with commercial supplier relationships. BIS identified 972 intra-AI investment relationships across 1,246 AI firms, with 73% of circular ties originating from compute or infrastructure companies. AI firms supplied 55.2% of the funding raised by other AI firms.

TREE NEWS update: French Finance Minister Lescure said the euro does not appear undervalued at the 1.10 level against the dollar. A weaker euro has given French exporters some breathing room. Lescure’s remarks address the currency’s valuation as it trades around that threshold.

TREE NEWS reports: Israeli fighter jets scrambled and were at one point prepared to shoot down a Dubai-bound airliner during an attempted mid-air attack on September 30, CBS reported on October 5, citing two Israeli sources. The report said the jets were ready even though more than 150 Israelis were aboard. Israeli officials have not confirmed the account.

TREE NEWS update: South Korea has remitted $2.4 billion to the United States as part of an investment in a Texas power project, Foreign Minister Cho Hyun said Tuesday during a parliamentary briefing. Cho gave the figure while testifying before lawmakers in Seoul. No further details on the project or the structure of the investment were disclosed.

TREE NEWS reports: European equities opened higher on Wednesday, with the Euro Stoxx 50 up 0.5%, Germany’s DAX up 0.6%, the UK’s FTSE 100 up 0.5% and France’s CAC 40 up 0.3%. The broad-based gains across the region’s major benchmarks marked a firmer start to the session.

TREE NEWS reports: Peter Thiel said in an interview with Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner that technological progress in the physical world has stalled since the 1970s, with advances confined to “bits” while “atoms” lag, and that this stagnation is the root of modern political polarization and zero-sum politics. He said AI is the last chance to restore growth, called the AI extinction debate overblown, and warned against Western precautionary brakes on AI.

TREE NEWS reports: Switzerland’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for September came in at 3.1%, matching the 3.1% consensus expectation and unchanged from the prior reading of 3.1%. The print signals a stable Swiss labour market through the month.

TREE NEWS update: Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said on the 6th that intelligence indicates Hamas plans to carry out an attack on the 7th, the third anniversary of the latest Israel-Hamas conflict, and that he has ordered the Israeli military to raise its alert level across the board. Katz said the army must prepare for the worst and act decisively on any intelligence or warning, vowing that any harm to Israeli troops in Gaza would bring an “extraordinarily heavy price” on Hamas and Gaza residents.

TREE NEWS reports: Crypto analyst Axel Adler says bitcoin long-term holders have been reducing their positions for seven consecutive weeks as BTC’s price rises, with new demand still absorbing the released supply. The current distribution remains modest next to the roughly 1.07 million BTC long-term holders shed in November 2025. If reductions again reach hundreds of thousands of BTC while prices stall, it may signal weakening absorption capacity.

TREE NEWS reports: France’s manufacturing output rose 0.3% month-on-month in August, rebounding from a revised 0.8% decline in July. The reading marks a return to modest growth for the country’s factory sector after the prior month’s contraction.

TREE NEWS reports: German seasonally adjusted factory orders rose 2.7% year-on-year in August, well below the 13.1% expected and down from the prior 13.1% reading. The weaker-than-expected print points to cooling demand for German industrial goods.