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TREE NEWS reports: On Monday, October 19, most major US asset-class ETFs declined, with the iShares US Real Estate ETF falling 1.14% and the 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF dropping 0.74%. The Nasdaq 100 ETF rose 1.21%, the S&P 500 ETF gained 0.42%, and the emerging markets ETF added 0.73%, while the US Dollar Index bullish fund climbed 0.28%.

TREE NEWS reports: The Bloomberg Electric Vehicle Price Return Index rose 0.74% to 2996.34 on Monday, October 19, trading in a narrow high range during the session after a notable gain in early Asia-Pacific trading. Among components, ITM Energy’s London shares fell 6.69%, Umicore dropped 5.31% and Volvo Car Group lost 3.03%, while Pony.ai ADRs, WeRide ADRs, Tesla and Hesai ADRs led gains.

TREE NEWS reports: Amazon shares rose 5% on Wednesday, marking the stock’s largest single-day gain since July. The move higher comes as the e-commerce and cloud computing giant trades in the U.S. equity market.

TREE NEWS reports: US stocks closed mixed on October 20, with the Nasdaq up 1.15% and the S&P 500 up 0.45% while the Dow was flat. Among key names, SanDisk (SNDK) rose 5.88%, Amazon (AMZN) gained 5.01%, SKHY added 4.75%, Tesla (TSLA) climbed 3.66% and Micron (MU) advanced 3.21%. Coinbase (COIN) fell 2.64%.

TREE NEWS reports: The Nasdaq Golden Dragon China Index closed down 0.2% in preliminary trading. Among popular Chinese ADRs, NetEase Youdao rose 7.4%, Hesai gained 4.3%, Zai Lab added 3.6% and ASE Semiconductor climbed 3.4%, while Pinduoduo edged up 0.5%. Baidu fell 0.4%, NetEase 0.5%, Alibaba 0.5% and Tencent 0.9%.

TREE NEWS reports: The S&P 500 closed up 0.4% in preliminary figures, with consumer discretionary up 2.7% and technology up 1.3%, while real estate fell 1.1% and utilities dropped 1.8%. The Nasdaq 100 gained 0.8%, led by Western Digital up 5.9%, SanDisk up 5.5%, Datadog up 5.3% and Amazon up 5.1%. The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index rose 1.8% and the memory-chip index gained about 2%.

TREE NEWS reports: The Hang Seng Index main futures contract closed 0.19% lower at 24,112 in the overnight session. The Hang Seng Tech Index futures contract fell 0.66% to 4,077 in the same session.

TREE NEWS update: Reliance Industries said Monday that investors including Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, BlackRock and Fidelity bid in the anchor portion of Jio Platforms’ record $3.2 billion IPO. Two sources put total demand for the offering above $25 billion. The telecom, cloud and AI group opened the institutional book on Monday, with up to 30% of shares reserved for anchor investors, before the offering opens to the public on Wednesday.

TREE NEWS reports: Hedge funds slashed their technology holdings at the fastest pace since Goldman Sachs began tracking the data in 2016, during the five trading days through Oct. 15. The bank’s prime brokerage unit reported the largest such reduction on record, while total trading activity fell at the quickest rate in nearly three months. Tech was the worst-performing sector in the MSCI World Index over that stretch, as the Nasdaq 100 dropped 5.5% last week, its biggest decline since April 2025, amid a global unwind of AI-themed trades.

TREE NEWS update: India’s Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the country’s stock market offers foreign portfolio investors an easier exit route due to ample liquidity, speaking on the sidelines of the IMF-World Bank meetings in Bangkok on Friday. She said people can exit easily because of abundant liquidity and easy access to funds, while adding that the fundamentals of the Indian economy are in good shape.

TREE NEWS update: Two Sigma executive Seth Platt is leaving the firm, the hedge fund confirmed. No reason was given for his departure and no successor was named. Platt’s exit comes as the quantitative investment manager continues to see senior personnel changes.

TREE NEWS update: Metaplanet is set to acquire a 93.7% stake in Super League through a transaction valued at 2,100 BTC, the company said. The deal would give the Japanese Bitcoin treasury firm access to US capital markets, where it plans to use preferred stock offerings to finance additional Bitcoin purchases.

TREE NEWS update: Strive added 1,223 BTC to its treasury for $335 million, lifting its total holdings to 36,818 BTC. The purchase follows an earlier buy that pushed the Bitcoin treasury company past MARA Holdings, and Strive is continuing to expand its reserves through equity financing.

TREE NEWS reports: JPMorgan expects a traditional 60/40 portfolio of stocks and bonds to deliver an annual return of 7% over the next 10 to 15 years. The bank’s projection covers the blended equity-and-fixed-income allocation widely used as a benchmark by long-term investors.

TREE NEWS update: Apple has announced it will hold a special event titled ‘Pro and Tell’ in Los Angeles on October 28. The company did not disclose further details about the event’s content or products. The announcement gives no indication of any crypto or digital-asset angle.

TREE NEWS update: The New York Stock Exchange has extended trading hours for options on a select group of NYSE American-listed securities, including the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust, iShares Russell 2000 ETF, SPDR Gold Trust, and shares of Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia, Alibaba and TSMC. Pre-market trading runs from 7:30 to 9:25 a.m. ET, with a post-market session from 4:00 to 4:15 p.m. ET. NYSE plans to extend similar hours to stock trading in December.

TREE NEWS reports: StoneX reiterated its Buy rating and $57 price target on Galaxy Digital (GLXY), stating the market undervalues the company’s Helios AI data center business despite concerns over CoreWeave’s debt. The call frames the AI infrastructure unit as a value driver that investors are not fully pricing in.

TREE NEWS reports: The MSCI Nordic Countries Index fell 0.7% to 394.02 points, with the Nordic industrials sector posting the steepest decline among the ten sectors. Boliden AB closed down 3.5%, the weakest performer among Nordic stocks.

TREE NEWS reports: Germany’s DAX 30 index fell 1.51% in the preliminary close to 25,236.69 points. France’s benchmark index declined 1.43%, Italy’s fell 1.86% with its bank index down 2.75%, and the UK index dropped 1.29%. The declines across major European markets reflected broad selling pressure.

TREE NEWS reports: The Nasdaq 100 extended its gain to 2%, led by Marvell Technology up 7.2%, SanDisk up 7.8%, Datadog up 7.2% and Western Digital up 6.8%. A storage-chip index climbed 5.9% to a fresh intraday high, while the S&P 500 rose 0.9%.