Murata has notified customers that it will gradually discontinue multiple multilayer ceramic capacitor products and urged them to place final orders before the cutoff dates. According to ChainCatcher, the move covers older products and part numbers across nine series, including GRM, GRJ, GRT, GXM, GXT, GCM, GCJ, GCG and ZRA, with applications spanning consumer electronics, industrial equipment and automotive markets. Customers must complete the transition to substitute products by December 31, 2027. The last order date is March 31, 2028, and the last shipment date is March 31, 2029. Market participants expect customers to shift to alternative suppliers after the affected part numbers are phased out, with Taiwanese makers Yageo, Walsin Technology, Holy Stone and Chilisin likely to receive redirected orders.

According to Wallstreetcn, Adobe Chairman and CEO Shantanu Narayen will step down as CEO on December 1, with Customer Experience Orchestration President Anil Chakravarthy set to succeed him and join the board, while Narayen becomes executive chairman.

According to Nikkei Asia, Chinese automaker BYD has dropped plans to build its own assembly plant in Malaysia and is instead in advanced talks with a local partner to meet its production goals in the country.

A list of suspended Hong Kong-listed companies showed multiple names with suspension dates ranging from September 10, 2026 to February 14, 2013, according to ETNet. The list includes 01561 Allied Intelligent Holdings, 01936 Letmi, 02592 BOCOM Cloud-B, 00853 MicroPort Scientific, 02160 MicroPort CardioFlow-B, 02172 MicroPort NeuroTech, 02252 MicroPort Robot-B, 00708 Evergrande Auto, 01668 China South City, 01728 Zhongzheng Auto, 02362 Jinchuan International, 06623 Lufax, and 01863 China Longyuan Group, among others.

According to HKET, JPX and UDN, Asian index futures fell across the overnight session as crude oil pushed above $100 a barrel and U.S. equities dropped for a fourth straight day. WTI rose 6.7% to $102.48 and Brent gained 5.9% to $107.63 on Middle East tension and Saudi output at its lowest since 1990, while U.S. August producer prices rose 5.4% year-on-year and the 10-year Treasury yield neared 5% at 4.943%. CME FedWatch showed odds of a Federal Reserve rate hike on Sept. 16 climbing to about 73% from roughly 64% before the data; the European Central Bank raised rates 0.25%. Nikkei 225 futures ended the Osaka Exchange night session lower. The near-month December 2026 contract closed at 63,870, down 1,220 points or about 1.87%, trading between a low of 63,770 and a high of 65,050 on volume of 9,109 as of 06:00 Japan time. (No Japanese media report on the night close was available; the figures are from JPX official data.) Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index futures night session closed at 24,701, down 199 points, moving between 24,691 and 24,909 on volume of 14,183 for the near-month September contract. The Hang Seng China Enterprises-linked mainland gauge eased 0.7% to 5,788. Among Hong Kong-listed names in U.S. trading, the HSBC ADR fell about 1.25% to an equivalent HK$162.64, the Tencent ADR slipped 0.89% to HK$421.80, the Meituan ADR lost 1.13% to HK$73.91, and Alibaba's U.S. shares edged down 0.46% to HK$106.41 equivalent. Taiwan's TAIEX futures led the declines. The near-month September contract fell 797 points, or 1.70%, to 46,072, swinging between a low of 46,015 and a high of 46,896, as the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index tumbled 2.66% overnight and TSMC futures fell NT$32.

US stocks closed lower on Thursday as US oil prices broke above $100 a barrel amid growing concerns that a prolonged war in the Middle East could worsen inflation, according to Sina Finance. The Dow fell 316.559 points, or 0.60%, to 52,064.102; the S&P 500 dropped 44.660 points, or 0.58%, to 7,591.700; and the Nasdaq lost 171.615 points, or 0.65%, to 26,081.725. With the US-Iran war now in its seventh month, high oil prices continued to weigh on market sentiment. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude settled at $102.48 a barrel, up 6.7%, while Brent crude futures rose 5.9% to close at $107.63. These were the highest closing prices for both benchmarks since May 19. Since the Iran war began in late February, WTI has risen 52.9% and is up 78.5% year to date. Thursday's oil surge pushed the 10-year US Treasury yield above 4.95%, its highest level since October 2023. High-beta chip stocks that had led the bull market moved lower on concerns that rising rates and oil prices could drag on economic growth, with Intel down more than 5% and Micron Technology off 4.7%. A mild wholesale inflation report failed to ease worries over rates and oil. The Producer Price Index (PPI) rose a seasonally adjusted 0.4% month over month in August, in line with consensus expectations, while the annualized rate came in at 5.4%, still well above the Federal Reserve's 2% inflation target. The report was released ahead of Friday's closely watched Consumer Price Index (CPI), with both figures feeding into the Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) price index, which will not be released until after the Fed's September 16 rate decision. According to the CME FedWatch tool, federal funds futures priced a 73% probability of a 25 basis point hike after next week's meeting. The major indexes had fallen for three straight sessions after the US Treasury said it would buy back up to $6 billion in longer-dated debt, three times the usual size; less than a month earlier, the Treasury had said it would more than double a $2 billion government debt buyback.

According to CNBC, Oracle rose more than 4% in extended trading after topping Wall Street expectations in its fiscal first quarter. The company earned $1.92 per share on an adjusted basis and posted revenue of $19.35 billion, while analysts polled by LSEG had sought $1.74 per share and $19.14 billion. Cloud infrastructure revenue more than doubled to $7.4 billion, beating the $7.09 billion estimate. Adobe slid 2% after issuing current-quarter guidance roughly in line with estimates, projecting adjusted earnings of $6.30 to $6.35 per share versus the LSEG consensus of $6.32, and revenue of $6.80 billion to $6.85 billion against the $6.85 billion consensus. Copart surged almost 8% after fourth-quarter revenue of $1.15 billion topped the LSEG consensus of $1.14 billion, and the car auction company announced it would acquire digital automotive marketplace ACV in a roughly $1.9 billion deal. RH climbed 6% after posting second-quarter revenue of $922 million, beating the $915 million consensus, with full-year revenue guidance calling for growth of 5.5% to 7%.

泉峰 Holdings (02285) said Joseph Galli Jr. has been appointed chief executive officer, effective yesterday, according to ETNet. Founder Pan Longquan will step down as CEO but remain an executive director and chairman. The group said Galli previously served as CEO and executive director of Techtronic Industries (00669) and as a director and CEO of Newell Brands.

Japanese equities fell sharply in early trading, with the Nikkei 225 at 63,315, down 1,955 points, or 3%, according to ETNet. South Korea's KOSPI was last at 6,831, down 202 points, or 2.88%. The dollar was quoted at 154.49/51 yen.

KB Securities said on September 11 that Samsung Electronics' HBM market share could rise from 33% in the second quarter to 40% in the fourth quarter. According to ChainCatcher, the forecast is driven by HBM4 sales in the third quarter rising more than three times quarter over quarter, with HBM4 expected to account for more than 60% of Samsung's total HBM sales in the second half of the year. Samsung has also set a roadmap for full-scale HBM4 mass production, HBM4E samples for key customers, an HBM5 architecture using a 1c core die and a 2-nanometer base die, and next-generation ZHBM. In foundry operations, 4-nanometer yields have remained above 80%, while 2-nanometer GAA yields have climbed above 70%. KB Securities analyst Kim Dong-Won said the foundry business could turn profitable from the third quarter and that improved 2-nanometer yields may help Samsung win orders from a major U.S. customer this year.

The bond market reacted ahead of Friday's CPI release. The 10-year US Treasury yield rose to 4.943%, and the probability of a Fed rate hike next week rose to 71%. The market is worried that the Fed may tighten again, and the real key will be whether the CPI can deliver the final blow.

Jinse Finance launches its cryptocurrency and blockchain industry daily news bulletin, "Jinse 8 AM," issue 3178, providing you with the latest and fastest news on the digital currency and blockchain industry.

From machine-payment tracks to autonomous procurement networks, an infrastructure migration revolves around "who will equip the buyer."

Jinse Finance launches the "Jinse Web3.0 Daily," providing you with the latest and fastest news on AI, DeFi, DAO, NFT, and the metaverse industry.

Japan's government bond yield has broken through 3% for the first time in 30 years, triggering global alarms.

An AI token worth watching ahead of Anthropic's IPO.

An unusual withdrawal of approximately $320 million has put Liquid Network in the spotlight.

LAPTOP gave 2% of its tokens to some of the TRUMP loss addresses, as if to compensate for the previous stumble; however, the extremely thin initial liquidity and asymmetric token distribution brought the injured back to the familiar trap of celebrity coins.

The pairing of cryptocurrencies with stocks is no longer an isolated phenomenon of a single public chain, but rather an industry-wide narrative where three mainstream public chains—Robinhood Chain, Solana, and BNB Chain—are almost simultaneously following suit.

Bessant made high-profile statements this week to suppress yen short sellers, while simultaneously expanding the cap on US Treasury repurchase agreements to $6 billion. As a result, the yen rose, but US Treasury bonds fell.