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TREE NEWS update: Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir said on the 11th that Israeli forces will not withdraw from the “yellow line” inside Lebanese territory, after destroying a Hezbollah underground tunnel beneath the Ali al-Taher ridge in southern Lebanon. Zamir said the “yellow line” remains under full Israeli control and that nothing has changed.

TREE NEWS update: Shengxin Lithium Energy said on September 11 that the lithium salt market remains in a sustained growth process, noting that recent lithium carbonate futures prices have been highly volatile due to demand and supply expectations, policy changes, capital flows and sentiment. The company said the supply-demand balance is dynamically shifting and future conditions will depend on terminal demand growth, industry inventory changes, the pace of new resource project releases and capacity expansion at existing projects.

TREE NEWS reports: US core consumer prices, which exclude food and energy, rose 0.3% month over month in August and 2.4% year over year, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said Friday. Headline CPI climbed 0.4% on the month and 3.4% on the year as energy costs rose. Traders now price roughly a 90% chance of a Federal Reserve rate hike next week.

TREE NEWS reports: Traders are pricing roughly a 90% probability that the Federal Reserve raises interest rates at next week’s meeting. The implied odds put a hike as the base case for the coming policy decision.

TREE NEWS reports: The US dollar index rose about 20 points to 99.15 after the release of US August CPI data, while spot gold fell more than $40 to $4,298 an ounce. The 10-year Treasury yield climbed to 4.949%. US equity futures slipped, with Nasdaq 100 futures paring gains to 0.5%.

TREE NEWS reports: US core consumer prices rose 2.4% year over year in August, in line with the 2.4% consensus estimate and slowing from 2.5% in July. The reading marks a further cooling in underlying inflation. It is the latest monthly CPI print watched by markets for signals on the Federal Reserve’s rate path.

TREE NEWS reports: US August CPI rose 0.4% month-on-month, matching the 0.4% forecast and up from 0.1% in the prior month. The print lands in line with consensus, with the prior reading revised to 0.1%.

TREE NEWS update: The United States is scheduled to release its August consumer price index at 20:30 Beijing time, a print that lands with markets watching for the inflation trajectory ahead of the Federal Reserve’s next policy decision. The CPI reading covers August and is the latest monthly inflation gauge for the world’s largest economy.

TREE NEWS update: China’s securities regulator issued the Supervisory and Administrative Measures for Futures Companies, setting tiered minimum registered capital requirements. Firms handling domestic futures brokerage need at least RMB 100 million, while those adding futures trading advisory services need at least RMB 200 million. Firms conducting trading-class businesses such as futures market making, asset management or derivatives trading need at least RMB 500 million for one business and RMB 1 billion for two or more. Where a firm operates multiple business types, the highest applicable threshold applies.

TREE NEWS reports: The Baltic Dry Index, which tracks freight rates for dry bulk commodities including iron ore, coal and grain, fell 0.4% to 3,507 points. The index is the benchmark gauge of global bulk shipping demand and a widely watched proxy for industrial commodity trade flows.

TREE NEWS update: The 28th China International Mining Conference’s high-level forum on finance supporting prospecting breakthroughs was held on September 11 at the Tianjin Meijiang Convention and Exhibition Center, where the “Initiative on Financial Support for a New Round of Strategic Action for Prospecting Breakthroughs” was released. The initiative calls on the entire industry to work together to embed financial resources deeply into every stage of prospecting breakthroughs and support the strategic action’s effectiveness.

TREE NEWS reports: India’s foreign exchange reserves rose by $44.9 billion in a single week, the largest weekly increase on record, bringing the total to $785.71 billion. The figures mark a new high for the country’s reserves.

TREE NEWS update: China’s National Development and Reform Commission Vice Chairman Zhou Haibing met with Peru’s Minister of Energy and Mines on the morning of September 11 in Beijing. The two sides exchanged views on advancing cooperation in energy, mining and investment. Zhou said the two countries’ energy and mining sectors are highly complementary and pledged to pursue more practical results, while Peru’s minister said Lima values cooperation with China and looks to deepen it.

TREE NEWS reports: The euro rose 0.2% against the Swiss franc to 0.94588, marking its highest level since April 2025. The move extends the single currency’s gain versus the franc.

TREE NEWS update: The Shanghai Futures Exchange will widen the daily price limit for fuel oil futures contracts FU2610 and FU2611 to 16% from the settlement on Sept. 14, 2026. The exchange also set trading margin requirements of 17% for hedging positions and 18% for ordinary positions in the two contracts.

TREE NEWS update: The Shanghai International Energy Exchange said it will widen the daily price-move limit to 16% and raise trading margin requirements for crude oil contracts SC2610 and SC2611 and low-sulfur fuel oil contracts LU2610 and LU2611, effective from the close of trading on Monday, Sept. 14, 2026. Hedging positions will carry a 17% margin, while ordinary positions will require 18%.

TREE NEWS update: China’s State Council Executive Meeting, chaired by Premier Li Qiang, called for rational layout and orderly development of computing infrastructure. The meeting urged further improvements to computing infrastructure and active promotion of research, development and application of key technologies and equipment, aiming to build a multi-tiered, networked computing power system.

TREE NEWS reports: The dollar fell 0.3% against the Japanese yen to 153.91, giving back half of the gain it posted on Thursday. The move marks a partial retracement of the prior session’s advance in the currency pair.

TREE NEWS update: China’s Ministry of Commerce responded to CIA Deputy Director Ellis’s public statement that the US is conducting broader espionage against China, including Chinese companies, to counter what he called a “dual threat” in the military and economic spheres. Ellis specifically named Chinese firms in artificial intelligence, semiconductors and biotechnology as legitimate targets of espionage. The ministry’s spokesperson took questions on the remarks.

TREE NEWS update: The European Commission approved €6.1 billion in funding for Ukraine on the 11th to procure air and missile defense systems, ammunition, drones and electronic warfare systems. The funds will support purchases from EU and Ukrainian defense firms, with member states having agreed on the arrangement. Ukraine can use the money to buy PAC-3 missiles for Patriot air defense systems.