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TREE NEWS reports: Tesla shares turned positive after earlier falling as much as 3.3%, reversing an intraday decline. The stock’s swing came without any specified catalyst in the material provided, and no further details on the move were given.

TREE NEWS reports: Russell Investments senior portfolio manager Jordan McCall said Apple serves as a highly liquid hedge against AI volatility. For investors worried about AI but still seeking tech exposure, McCall said Apple is a good position to hold. When markets turn tense, Apple becomes a safe destination for capital, he said.

TREE NEWS reports: Apple shares have risen 28% in 2026, making the company the largest contributor to the S&P 500’s 12% gain. As Wall Street grows hesitant about AI infrastructure spending, investors are turning to Apple as a way to stay in tech while avoiding some volatility, largely because Apple has stayed out of the massive AI capex race. Its strong free cash flow and steady earnings growth stand out, though growth trails Big Tech peers and its valuation has climbed to elevated levels.

TREE NEWS reports: The S&P 500 extended its decline to 1% on the day. The move marked a deepening of the index’s losses, with the benchmark down 1.0% from the prior close. No further detail on the drivers or individual sectors was provided.

TREE NEWS reports: US sector ETFs opened mixed, with the consumer staples ETF gaining more than 1% while the semiconductor ETF fell more than 3% and the global tech stock index ETF dropped nearly 2%. The moves came in early trading as the major sector funds diverged.

TREE NEWS reports: Meta shares fell more than 6% on Monday, wiping about $100 billion from the company’s market capitalization. SpaceX stock also dropped 5.1%, on pace to shed $90 billion in market value.

TREE NEWS reports: Major US technology stocks fell across the board, with SpaceX (SPCX.O) down 4%, Meta Platforms (META.O) down 4%, and Tesla (TSLA.O) down 2.87%. Chip names also declined: SanDisk (SNDK.O) fell 4.8%, SK Hynix (SKHY.O) 4.5%, Micron (MU.O) 3.8%, IBM (IBM.N) 2.5% and Nvidia (NVDA.O) 2.1%.

TREE NEWS reports: The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index fell about 4% in early US trading, with Intel down about 6%, AMD about 5%, ASML about 4% and Nvidia about 2%. Tesla dropped about 3% after third-quarter revenue missed expectations and the company cut its capex target, while Meta slid about 5% as its future spending commitments surged to $825 billion. AI compute-rental names CoreWeave and Nebius each fell about 5%, and memory-chip and optical-communications stocks also declined broadly.

TREE NEWS update: The Shanghai Stock Exchange issued a regulatory letter to Shandong Daye Co. regarding recent volatility in the company’s share price. The letter names the listed company as the subject and cites share price fluctuations as the reason for the regulatory action. No further details of the letter’s contents or any potential consequences were disclosed.

TREE NEWS reports: Meta’s credit risk indicator climbed to a record high, driven by the company’s AI spending plans. The move reflects growing concern among credit investors over the scale of Meta’s artificial-intelligence outlays. No specific figure or date was provided in the material.

TREE NEWS reports: Global equities fell Thursday as the AI trade cooled and Middle East tensions worsened, with US stock index futures all lower, Tesla down about 5% premarket, spot gold down 2%, spot silver down nearly 4% and Brent crude up 3%. The Nikkei 225 closed down 2.7%, the Shanghai Composite fell 0.89% and the Hang Seng dropped 3.03%. Brent crude topped $112 after Houthi attacks on Saudi targets including Saudi Aramco oil facilities.

TREE NEWS update: The Shanghai Stock Exchange on Oct. 22 terminated its review of Wuhan Zhongke Chuangxin Technology Co.’s initial public offering and STAR Market listing after the company and its sponsor Soochow Securities withdrew the application. The decision ends the IPO process for the Wuhan-based firm.

TREE NEWS reports: BlackRock is looking to reposition its AI trade as equity valuations become broadly more attractive, global chief investment strategist Wei Li said. Near-term risks remain, including rising bond yields and markets beginning to demand concrete signs of AI commercialization, but the long-term potential of AI is unchanged. Li said framing such a transformative technology as a “bubble” is “not particularly helpful,” since it will produce both winners and losers.

TREE NEWS update: Lianxun Instruments said on Oct. 22 that its production and operations remain normal and orderly, with order deliveries proceeding as planned, after the optical communications sector pulled back and its shares fell sharply. The company said its core test instruments for 800G and 1.6T high-speed optical module testing — including sampling oscilloscopes, bit error rate analyzers and clock recovery units — are its main delivery products this year and face strong market demand.

TREE NEWS update: Taiwan suspended stock trading on October 23 as a typhoon affected the island. The halt covers the Taiwan Stock Exchange for the full trading session. No further details on the typhoon’s path or expected duration of the disruption were provided.

TREE NEWS update: JCET Group’s board approved raising its 2026 investment plan to 18.2 billion yuan ($2.5 billion) from 11.01 billion yuan. Fixed-asset investment will rise to 17.31 billion yuan from 9.98 billion yuan as the chip packaging firm seeks to capture industry opportunities and accelerate advanced capacity buildout. The proposal still requires shareholder approval.

TREE NEWS reports: Hedge funds sharply increased short positions in stocks this month, pushing bearish bets to their highest level in nearly five years and raising the risk of a violent short squeeze if markets rebound. Goldman Sachs’ prime brokerage said short sales outnumbered long buys by about 5 to 1, with short leverage in client books at the 99th percentile of the past five years. Net leverage at fundamental long-short equity funds has fallen close to a three-year low even as gross leverage rose.

TREE NEWS reports: Blackstone reported a 9.2% decline in third-quarter distributable earnings to $1.72 billion, or $1.32 per share, topping the $1.26 consensus estimate. President Jon Gray said surging energy prices stoked inflation and higher rates slowed deal activity and weighed on the IPO market. Infrastructure was again the firm’s best-performing strategy, returning 6.4%, helped by data center leasing, logistics and hospitality investments.

TREE NEWS update: The Shanghai Stock Exchange has removed tea chain Cha Baidao from the Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect southbound trading list, effective from the next southbound trading day. The change means mainland investors will no longer be able to trade the stock through the Stock Connect scheme.

TREE NEWS reports: Meta Platforms’ future spending commitments have surged to $825 billion. The total reflects contractual and planned outlays the company has committed to going forward. No breakdown of the commitments or timing was provided in the report.