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TREE NEWS update: Four students were injured in an attack at a high school in western Turkey on the 22nd, Turkish authorities said. The incident occurred at the school and the injured students have been accounted for. No further details on the attacker or the condition of the students were immediately available.

TREE NEWS update: An attack at a high school in western Turkey on the 22nd has left four students injured, Turkish authorities said. No further details on the assailant’s identity or the condition of the injured students were immediately available.

TREE NEWS update: Saudi Aramco has informally notified several Asian refineries that crude loadings from the Red Sea port of Yanbu can resume shortly, after loadings there were almost completely halted following a September 10 Iraqi drone attack that shut the East-West pipeline. European buyers have been hit hardest, with at least two European refineries told they will not receive their October term crude allocations.

TREE NEWS reports: Saudi Aramco has informally notified several Asian refineries that crude loadings from the Red Sea port of Yanbu can resume shortly, after loadings there all but halted when the East-West pipeline was shut by an Iraqi drone attack on September 10. European buyers have been hit hardest, with at least two European refineries told they will not receive their October term crude allocations.

TREE NEWS update: Ding Zhongli, vice chairman of China’s National People’s Congress Standing Committee, led a delegation to South Korea from September 21 to 22 at the invitation of the South Korean National Assembly. He met with National Assembly Speaker Cho Jung-sik and attended the 14th meeting of the China-South Korea Parliamentary Exchange Mechanism alongside Vice Speaker Nam In-soon.

TREE NEWS update: Ding Zhongli, vice chairman of China’s National People’s Congress Standing Committee, led a delegation to South Korea on September 21-22 at the invitation of the South Korean National Assembly. He met with Assembly Speaker Cho Jung-sik and, alongside Deputy Speaker Nam In-soon, attended the 14th meeting of the China-South Korea parliamentary exchange mechanism.

TREE NEWS update: The Seoul Central District Court on the 22nd sentenced Kim Keon-hee, wife of former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, to five years in prison in an appellate ruling on charges of selling public offices. The case centers on allegations she traded official appointments for favors. The ruling was handed down by the Seoul Central District Court.

TREE NEWS update: Seoul Central District Court on the 22nd handed down a five-year prison sentence to Kim Keon-hee, wife of former South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol, in the appeal ruling of a case alleging she sold official posts for money. The appeals court upheld the charges of trading government positions. The case is one of several legal proceedings involving the former first couple.

TREE NEWS reports: The Haifutong Short-Term Financing Bond ETF (511360) on the Shanghai Stock Exchange recorded a historic single-day turnover of over 130 billion yuan, surpassing the total turnover of all equity ETFs in China on the same day, which was less than 110 billion yuan. The fund’s latest scale stands at 84.9 billion yuan, with a year-to-date average daily turnover of 34.957 billion yuan, breaking its previous record of 88.495 billion yuan set on April 29, 2026.

TREE NEWS reports: The UK’s public sector net borrowing deficit for August came in at £10.005 billion, following a surplus of £29 billion in the previous month. The swing reflects the seasonal gap between government spending and receipts, with the prior month’s positive figure now revised to show a £29 billion surplus.

TREE NEWS reports: UK public sector net borrowing came in at £18.268bn for August, well above the £15.6bn expected and up sharply from £1.8bn a year earlier. The overshoot marks a significantly wider fiscal deficit than economists had projected for the month.

TREE NEWS reports: South Korea’s National Pension Service is in talks to secure a permit to invest in Indian government bonds. The discussions concern the pension fund’s access to India’s sovereign debt market. No figures or timeline were disclosed.

TREE NEWS update: Russia’s defence ministry said on September 22 that its forces carried out a large-scale overnight strike on Ukraine using high-precision land-, sea- and air-launched weapons and drones. It said the targets hit included metallurgy, chemicals, fuel and energy facilities and the defence industry, plus ports and vessels serving the Ukrainian military, in Kyiv city and Dnipropetrovsk, Poltava and Odesa regions.

TREE NEWS reports: Global semiconductor revenue surpassed $425 billion in the second quarter of 2026, a new all-time high. The quarter’s revenue rose 31.4% from the prior quarter, beating the previous record 29.2% sequential growth set in the first quarter. AI demand and strong memory prices remained the main drivers, lifting first-half 2026 semiconductor revenue to $752 billion.

TREE NEWS reports: The main silver futures contract on the Shanghai Futures Exchange dropped more than 2% to 15,870 yuan per kilogram. The move marks a sharp intraday decline for the SHFE silver benchmark.

TREE NEWS reports: Taiwan’s weighted stock index closed 0.2% higher at 47,800.17 on the Taiwan Stock Exchange. The benchmark ended the session in positive territory, gaining on the day’s trading.

TREE NEWS update: Barclays Plc has hired Wee Yee Yeong, head of Morgan Stanley’s Singapore wealth management business, to lead its wealth management operations in Singapore and Asia, and has restarted operations at its Singapore booking center. Wee is expected to join the British bank in December, succeeding Evonne Tan, who left in April to become Asia wealth management CEO at Schroders.

TREE NEWS reports: Spot silver fell 1.0% during the trading session to $65.31 an ounce. The intraday decline marks a pullback in the precious metal’s price, which had been trading at elevated levels. No further details on the drivers of the move were provided.

TREE NEWS reports: The Shanghai Composite Index reversed into negative territory during afternoon trading, erasing earlier gains. The benchmark swung lower as the session progressed, with the index turning green (down) on the day. No further figures were immediately available.

TREE NEWS update: Australia’s Treasury named AI among five major transitions expected to reshape the economy over the next 40 years, but the outlook makes no mention of crypto. Coinbase said the report overlooks the digital financial infrastructure AI agents could eventually require.