TREE NEWS update: Iranian Parliament Speaker and negotiating delegation head Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said Iran has submitted a clear and transparent reply to the United States listing its demands, adding that the ball is now in Washington’s court. He said Washington has so far not given a formal, specific response to the letter and must meet Tehran’s seven conditions on opening the Strait of Hormuz and resuming talks.
TREE NEWS reports: StoneX maintained its Buy rating on Securitize and set a price target implying 111% upside, citing tokenized equities, fund demand and structured credit as growth drivers. The call points to a rebound in the tokenization platform’s revenue.
TREE NEWS update: China’s retail fuel prices are set to fall for the sixth time this year when the pricing window opens at midnight on Nov 12, with gasoline and diesel cut by 410 yuan per tonne, or about 0.3 yuan per litre. Filling a 50-litre tank of 92-octane gasoline will cost about 15 yuan less. Crude’s reference change rate stood at -9.28% as of the ninth working day on Nov 10.
TREE NEWS update: Google has given employees access to test a new “fast” Gemini artificial intelligence model called Hydrogen, the company confirmed. The model is being trialed internally as part of Google’s Gemini lineup. No release date or performance details were disclosed.
TREE NEWS update: OKXICE will open its tokenized securities venue on Nov. 23 with more than 70 assets, led by crypto companies including Coinbase, Circle, Robinhood and Strategy. The launch comes after 67 companies objected to having their shares listed on the platform. The venue is turning to crypto firms after major technology companies opted out.
TREE NEWS update: Moonwell has reduced collateral limits for existing loans on Base and Optimism under governance proposal MIP-X75, cutting backing for borrowers and dropping VELO and wrsETH as eligible collateral. Borrowers near their limits now face liquidation unless they reduce debt or add eligible collateral.
TREE NEWS update: Variational has ended the Omni beta and removed its invite-code gate, opening access to the platform. The trading API remains unavailable under the company’s published documentation, and the VAR token is still scheduled for Q4 2026.
TREE NEWS update: The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission is investigating Kalshi over whether the prediction market improperly self-certified its event contracts. The probe centers on the company’s use of the self-certification process, which allows exchanges to list new contracts without prior CFTC approval. No further details on the scope or timing of the investigation were provided.
TREE NEWS update: Stacks executed a mainnet vault withdrawal using a Lamport one-time signature, testing post-quantum cryptography for sBTC transfers. The test does not upgrade ordinary sBTC wallets or the Bitcoin backing the token, the network said. The exercise marks an early live demonstration of quantum-resistant signing on the Stacks mainnet.
TREE NEWS reports: The US Air Force has withdrawn some military aircraft from its base at RAF Mildenhall in the UK, with about 10 KC-135 tankers and 3 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft flying to Germany, Spain and other UK bases. The US military has not confirmed the move. US media reported the redeployment may be linked to a potential security threat.
TREE NEWS update: Meta’s head of infrastructure, Santosh Janardhan, will step down from his role in 2027, with Dave Brown named as his successor. The transition was disclosed without further details on the timing of the handover or Brown’s current position. Janardhan has overseen Meta’s global infrastructure operations, including data centers and server fleets.
TREE NEWS update: Former UK Prime Minister David Cameron warned current Prime Minister Andy Burnham not to take the UK back into the European Union. The warning was issued as a direct statement from the former leader to the incumbent, without further details on the context or timing of the remark. No additional policy specifics or responses from Burnham were provided.
TREE NEWS update: Venezuela has sent state-owned oil equipment to the United States for maintenance, the first such shipment in more than a decade. The move marks a rare instance of energy-sector cooperation between the two countries after years of sanctions and strained ties.
TREE NEWS update: Anchorage Digital now lets institutional clients hold, trade and pledge Tether Gold (XAU₮) through its Prime platform, the crypto firm said. It is the first of several tokenized real-world assets the company plans to support as collateral for borrowing. The move extends Anchorage’s institutional lending and custody offering to gold-backed tokens.
TREE NEWS update: A member of Germany’s Council of Economic Experts, Gabriel Felbermayr, warned Wednesday that the US midterm election results are unlikely to soften Washington’s protectionist stance and could instead increase uncertainty over tariff policy. Speaking as the five-member council released its annual report, he said the situation could become tense as early as early next year as certain deadlines expire. For German exporters, he said, this could mean a cooling US market, which had improved over the past two to three months partly on an AI boom.
TREE NEWS update: Chinese Ambassador to the United States Xie Feng said on the evening of the 10th that despite major changes in China, the US and the world in recent years and ups and downs in bilateral ties, the mutually beneficial nature of China-US relations has not changed. He said the two countries’ peoples still wish for friendly exchanges and the international community broadly expects peaceful coexistence, adding that both sides must find the right way for major powers to get along.
TREE NEWS update: Marsh & McLennan Cos. is lobbying US regulators to let banks hold less capital against loans covered by credit-risk insurance, as lenders seek new ways to offload data-center exposure. Azi Larsen, managing director of the firm’s credit specialties business, said demand for hedging AI-related financing has surged, but US lenders have traditionally relied on other tools because insurance does not free up regulatory capital for them.
TREE NEWS reports: The Nasdaq 100 extended its gain to 2.1% while the Nasdaq Composite rose 1.57% and the S&P 500 climbed more than 1%, with the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index surging 5.38%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average bucked the trend, slipping more than 0.1%.
TREE NEWS reports: Germany remains Chinese companies’ preferred destination for production investment in Europe, with cooperation between Chinese and German firms deepening in R&D and manufacturing, according to the 2026 Business Environment Survey of Chinese Enterprises in Germany released on November 11 in Frankfurt by the German-Chinese Chamber of Commerce and KPMG Germany. More than 110 companies took part in the second annual joint survey.
TREE NEWS reports: The White House has requested restrictions on remote access to overseas computing rentals used by Chinese AI labs. The move targets a loophole that lets foreign entities rent AI chips hosted abroad rather than buying them directly. Nvidia has reportedly lobbied against closing the gap. No further details on the scope or timing of the request were provided.