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TREE NEWS reports: U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs attracted $526.7 million in net inflows on Monday, their largest single day since Sept. 22. BlackRock’s IBIT accounted for the entire total, while Fidelity and Grayscale funds recorded net outflows.

TREE NEWS update: TSMC’s ADR rose 1.6% and held near its intraday high of $428.21. The company said work has been suspended at its F22 P4 construction site in Kaohsiung’s Nanzih park after four workers fell while welding steel beams on Oct. 20; three died and the fourth is hospitalized. TSMC’s safety team is cooperating with authorities and the company is assisting the subcontractor.

TREE NEWS update: Strive closed a $630 million IPO for its bitcoin treasury vehicle SATS, the company said, without specifying how much of the proceeds will go to bitcoin. The company could buy an estimated 7,372 BTC with its net proceeds, a purchase that would put its holdings above Metaplanet’s if the full amount is allocated.

TREE NEWS update: Joel Kaplan is leaving Meta Platforms after 15 years as its head of policy affairs, a company spokesperson said. Meta President and Vice Chair Dina Powell McCormick will take on the external affairs role in addition to her current duties. No date for the departure was given.

TREE NEWS reports: EssilorLuxottica’s American depositary receipts gained 3.7% on the session. The move marks a single-session advance for the eyewear group’s US-listed ADR. No further details were disclosed in the material.

TREE NEWS update: Adidas reported third-quarter operating profit of €1.01bn, up 37% year on year and a record for the period, with revenue rising 9% to a record €7.25bn. The German sportswear maker said it had received most US tariff claims, with refunds amounting to €200m, and raised its fiscal 2026 operating profit guidance to about €2.5bn from around €2.3bn. It expects currency-neutral revenue growth of 9%-10% in 2026 and plans to reinvest about €100m in the fourth quarter.

TREE NEWS reports: Boeing shares pared losses after the United States certified the 737 MAX 10 aircraft, the Associated Press reported. The certification removes a key regulatory hurdle for the planemaker’s largest 737 variant. No further details on the timing or terms of the approval were provided.

TREE NEWS reports: Bitcoin rose to $83,300 on Wednesday as strong US corporate earnings lifted stock markets, before reversing at a 21-day trend line. The move tracked gains in equities while oil prices fell.

TREE NEWS update: Meta Platforms’ head of global affairs, Kaplan, is leaving the company. No reason was given for the departure and no successor was named. Meta did not immediately comment on the move. The exit comes as the company continues to face scrutiny over its global policy and regulatory posture.

TREE NEWS update: EssilorLuxottica reported third-quarter revenue of €7.49 billion, up 7.2% on a like-for-like basis, beating analysts’ forecast of 6.3% growth and €7.37 billion in revenue. North American revenue came in at €3.2 billion, above the €3.15 billion expected. The eyewear group’s results cover the three months through September.

TREE NEWS update: Carrefour lowered its 2026 financial targets following severe unrest in France over the weekend. The retailer reported third-quarter sales including VAT of €22.69 billion, against analysts’ expectations of €22.58 billion. Like-for-like sales excluding fuel and calendar effects rose 2.3% in the quarter, with French LFL sales up 1.2%.

TREE NEWS reports: The MSCI Nordic Countries Index fell 0.4% to 392.48 points, its lowest close since Oct. 9. Industrials was the weakest of the ten sectors, while Neste Oyj dropped 4.3%, the worst performer among Nordic constituents.

TREE NEWS reports: Germany’s DAX 30 index closed provisionally 0.09% lower at 25,296.59. France’s benchmark index fell 0.24% and Italy’s index slipped 0.06%, with the Italian bank index down 0.47%. The UK index closed provisionally 0.30% lower.

TREE NEWS reports: Oppenheimer analyst Chris Kotowski said the selloff in alternative asset manager stocks has been overdone and the shares are highly attractive given continued improvement in the sector’s fundamentals. The broker noted that while macro narratives have never truly been key to the fundamentals, they have repeatedly caused sharp swings, and rate hikes do not change the industry’s basic business conditions or investors’ willingness to allocate to future fundraising. Kotowski cited the 2015-2016 period, when the stocks fell 42% as oil prices dropped and high-yield spreads widened, saying the impact on business was slight and short-lived.

TREE NEWS reports: CoreWeave shares reversed early losses on the day, climbing as much as 5.3% after falling more than 6.3% in early U.S. trading. The swing marked a volatile session for the AI cloud-computing company’s stock, with the intraday move spanning roughly 11.6 percentage points between the session low and high.

TREE NEWS update: Yangshengtang, controlled by Nongfu Spring founder Zhong Shanshan, completed its first increase in its stake in Jinbo Bio (锦波生物) on October 19 via centralized bidding, the company disclosed after market close on October 20. Jinbo Bio shares closed at 153.15 yuan that day, up 10.82%, with turnover of 453 million yuan and a turnover rate of 5.43%.

TREE NEWS reports: Scotiabank estimates that at a $1.5 trillion valuation, Anthropic’s equity would be worth about $16 per share to Alphabet, roughly 5% of its stock value, and about $27 per share to Amazon, nearly 10% of its stock value. The bank said an Anthropic IPO would convert one of the largest private AI holdings on both companies’ balance sheets into a publicly priced asset, with Amazon benefiting more from the stake. It also flagged Anthropic’s growing importance as a Google Cloud and AWS customer.

TREE NEWS update: Yatsen Holding has sold its cosmetics brand Pink Bear, which it incubated in 2021 for 16-25 year-old consumers, to a new shareholder, the company confirmed. Yatsen said the move reflects long-term strategy and brand portfolio optimization, and that it will hand over the brand, team, consumers and partners in an orderly manner. It did not disclose transaction terms.

TREE NEWS reports: CoreWeave shares rose 2.6% to a fresh session high, reversing an earlier decline of about 6%. The intraday swing left the AI cloud-computing company higher on the day after briefly trading sharply lower.

TREE NEWS update: Li Auto has launched the Lianshan battery protection plan, which includes two lifetime guarantees: a lifetime guarantee that the battery will not spontaneously combust and a lifetime guarantee that it will not catch fire in a collision. The program covers both battery safety commitments for the electric vehicle maker’s customers.