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TREE NEWS reports: France’s final EU-harmonized consumer price index for August came in at 2.6% year on year, revised down from a preliminary reading of 2.7%. The harmonized index is the measure used for euro-area inflation comparisons.

TREE NEWS reports: Mizuho Securities said the Treasury selloff may slow as higher yields draw investor demand. “The 10-year yield looks unlikely to rise further toward 5.25% or 5.5%, because the carry should be enough to offset a slight increase in funding costs,” said Hidehiro Joke, senior bond strategist in Tokyo. He added that inflation should slow as tariff effects fade and that the Fed probably won’t hold rates high without cutting as markets now expect.

TREE NEWS reports: China’s ChiNext Index fell more than 1% in late-afternoon trading, while the Shenzhen Component Index declined 0.66% and the Shanghai Composite Index slipped 0.58%. Battery maker CATL dropped more than 6%, weighing on the market. No further details were provided.

TREE NEWS reports: Japan’s Nikkei 225 closed down 0.01% at 63,484.10 on the day, while the broader Topix index ended 0.5% lower at 4,037.16. The two benchmarks moved in the same direction but by different magnitudes, with the blue-chip Nikkei finishing essentially flat as the wider market posted the larger decline.

TREE NEWS reports: CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost said Binance’s 7-day average of altcoin inflow transactions rose to 31,800, nearly four times July’s 8,300, ahead of Tuesday’s US Senate procedural vote on the Clarity Act and Wednesday’s FOMC rate decision. Coinbase’s average climbed to 4,700 from 2,200 in July, while Bybit rose to 2,700. The increase follows bitcoin’s more than 30% gain in a few days and may signal selling pressure.

TREE NEWS update: Russia’s defense ministry said its drones struck a logistics center in Ukraine’s Odesa region used to receive, store and distribute military supplies, along with two ships carrying cargo for Ukrainian forces at Chornomorsk port. The ministry said strikes on railway infrastructure in western Ukraine, used to move military supplies from Europe, also continued.

TREE NEWS reports: Hong Kong recorded 5.46 million visitor arrivals in August, up 6% year on year and the highest monthly total since 2019, the Hong Kong Tourism Board said on September 15. For the first eight months of the year, arrivals reached about 36.67 million, an 11% increase from a year earlier.

TREE NEWS reports: About 8 million barrels of oil a day are now flowing out through the Strait of Hormuz, putting total Middle East crude outflow at roughly 13.5 million barrels a day, the analysis arm of shipbroker Clarksons. Before the US-Iran conflict, about 15 million barrels a day moved through the strait and total Middle East crude outflow was 18 million barrels a day.

TREE NEWS update: Japan’s Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama said the government will not rely on deficit-financing bonds to fund tax cuts, stating that spending and revenue will be examined together to maintain market confidence. Katayama also said budget requests for the next fiscal year will be scrutinized strictly.

TREE NEWS reports: Singapore’s air quality deteriorated to ‘unhealthy’ levels across all five regions on Tuesday, the first time since September 2019, as wildfires in neighbouring Indonesia spread haze driven by El Nino-related dry weather. Singapore ranks among the world’s 10 most polluted cities, with Kuala Lumpur and Jakarta also near the top.

TREE NEWS reports: Westpac warns that Japan’s possible additional defense spending will intensify pain in the bond market and spill over into global bonds. Martin Whetton, the bank’s head of financial markets strategy, said Fed rate hikes and sustained higher oil prices will push US Treasury yields up again, and that yields approaching 5% on Monday should be treated as the norm rather than the exception.

TREE NEWS reports: FTSE China A50 index futures dropped more than 1% in afternoon trading. The move came during the afternoon session, with the contract extending losses past the 1% mark. No further details were immediately available.

TREE NEWS reports: The pound slipped 0.1% against the dollar to 1.3480 following the release of UK employment data. Sterling’s move came as traders weighed the latest reading on the British labour market, which drove the currency lower in immediate reaction. No further figures were disclosed in the release.

TREE NEWS update: China’s Minister of Ecology and Environment Huang Runqiu said at the 2026 China Carbon Market Conference in Wuhan on September 15 that the country will strengthen the market’s emission-reduction role, broaden trading products and participants, and expand international cooperation to build a more effective, dynamic and globally influential carbon market.

TREE NEWS reports: UK ILO employment rose by 66,000 in the three months to July, down from a revised 84,000 increase in the previous period. The slowdown in hiring marks a further cooling of the British labour market.

TREE NEWS reports: UK average weekly earnings including bonuses rose 3.9% year-on-year in the three months to July, slowing from 4.1% in the prior period. The reading covers the May-to-July window and marks a deceleration in headline pay growth.

TREE NEWS reports: UK jobless claims rose by 27,800 in August, swinging from a revised decline of 11,000 the previous month, the latest labour-market data showed. The reading points to a deterioration in British employment conditions as claimant counts moved back into positive territory.

TREE NEWS reports: The UK unemployment rate rose to 4.4% in August, up from 4.3% in the previous reading. The prior-month figure was 4.3%. No further breakdown of the labour market data was provided.

TREE NEWS update: China’s National Health Commission issued a notice on strengthening comprehensive childcare service centers, calling on local authorities to speed up construction and operation. The notice directs regions to size facilities to local population, childcare demand and economic conditions, building centers with moderate scale, suitable equipment and complete functions, while planning for operations from the start.

TREE NEWS update: South Korea’s finance minister nominee said the bond market requires close monitoring and that he is prepared to take measures to stabilize it if necessary. The nominee did not specify what steps might be taken or under what conditions. The remarks signal continued official sensitivity to volatility in Korean fixed-income markets.