China’s public expenditure declined at a quicker pace in August as the government continued to pull back fiscal support for the economy, according to Bloomberg. The drop came even as growth momentum cooled.

According to CNBC, JPMorgan upgraded Tyson Foods to overweight from neutral and lowered its price target on the chicken and beef processor's shares to $63 from $65, which still implies nearly 21% upside from Thursday's close. Analyst Thomas Palmer said emerging chicken headwinds tied mainly to higher feed costs are widely understood and could be partly offset by industry production cuts, while beef earnings could improve from historically depressed levels as tailwinds build. He also said Tyson is set to benefit from a reduced operational footprint, the gradual resumption of cattle imports from Mexico and increased domestic cattle supply, and added that TSN's U.S. retail volume is growing. Shares of Tyson have fallen nearly 11% year to date, and the stock rose more than 1% in premarket trading after the upgrade.

Russia took control of the local businesses of Swiss food giant Nestle and French supermarket chain Auchan in what Bloomberg described as the Kremlin’s largest takeover of foreign corporate assets since at least 2024. The US is expected to hold off announcing new tariffs on China and other trading partners until after next week’s summit between Presidents Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump, according to people familiar with the matter.

According to Wallstreetcn, the ARR of Baidu's AI office agent Baidu Dazi Enterprise Edition rose nearly 10 times month over month in both July and August, and Baidu has repeatedly raised its annual revenue target, with the latest goal three to five times the one set at the start of the year.

Altcoins broadly strengthened, with UNI briefly rising above $9.4 and trading at $9.2, up more than 35% on the day. According to Odaily, NEAR climbed above $3.59 and was trading at $3.57, up more than 26% on the day.

Foreign exchange volatility has stayed so low for so long that traders are starting to treat it as a new normal rather than a temporary phase. According to Sina Finance, the low-volatility environment was one of the main topics for the second straight year at an annual industry conference in Amsterdam this week. Investors said the market has struggled to sustain large currency swings even when bonds, oil prices, and geopolitical conditions move sharply. Harish Neelakandan, co-chief investment officer at systematic trend-following fund AlphaEngine Global Investment Solutions, said currency volatility is undergoing a long-term structural decline and that traders must adapt. For the foreign exchange market, which averages $9.6 trillion in daily trading volume, the lack of volatility is becoming a long-term problem, especially for traders who profit from large currency moves. But asset managers and companies that hedge their exposures may benefit from a calmer market. Neelakandan said closer coordination among central banks has helped suppress currency swings, while geopolitical shocks often produce only brief spikes in volatility. Unless that backdrop changes fundamentally, traders are likely to keep treating such spikes as opportunities to short volatility again. Thomas Carreau, foreign exchange portfolio manager at CN Investment Division, said the market is now seeing a "nothing will happen" trade, with investors continually selling volatility. He said recent yen moves have still been relatively limited, even after the currency fell to a 40-year low before joint U.S.-Japan intervention in the foreign exchange market triggered several sharp rebounds. Carreau also said carry trades remain strong. He prefers dollar-neutral carry trades because U.S. President Donald Trump's social media posts can still cause small daily moves in the dollar. He said the strategy works well in a low-volatility environment. Harel Jacobson, assistant portfolio manager at Capstone Investment Advisors, said lower volatility forces traders to take larger positions to earn the same return, which increases portfolio risk when rare large moves occur. He said his fund often buys cheap hedges to protect against unusually violent market swings, citing last year's Taiwan dollar surge as the kind of event it seeks to guard against. Allan Guild, chairman of the conference and director at Hilltop Walk Consulting, said low volatility is not bad for everyone and may reflect ample liquidity and efficient functioning in the foreign exchange market, even when the outside world remains turbulent.

India’s Shapoorji Pallonji Group is in talks with lenders to one of its units to extend a bond payment due at the end of September, according to Bloomberg. The conglomerate is behind the country’s biggest private credit deal.

Euro-area finance ministers may hold an extraordinary meeting to discuss how to cope with rising energy prices amid strained budgets and global bond-market turmoil, according to Bloomberg.

The SEC's introduction of an innovation exemption opens a five-year experimental window for stock tokenization, but with strict limits on liquidity, a short-term surge is unlikely.

As artificial intelligence moves deeper into military systems, security experts from the United States and China are warning against how machines could one day independently take over the red button that is used to launch nuclear weapons.

He argued that if AI can prove complex mathematical theorems like Navier-Stokes and Fermat's Last Theorem, it can prove that a program is mathematically secure

Hyundai Card completed a $20,000 cross-border payment between Hyundai Motor’s US and Mexico units using USDT on Avalanche, settling it in about seven minutes instead of three to four hours. The company now plans to test the system at a larger scale and run a separate European pilot with Circle and Visa.

Germany is rapidly building one of Europe’s largest regulated crypto markets, with the number of companies authorized under the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) framework jumping from 58 to 89 in just over two months.

Following Anthropic's adjustment of its data retention rules, major companies such as Nvidia have collectively shifted to open-source models, intensifying the battle for AI data sovereignty.

Since September 17th, UNI has once again become one of the best-performing mainstream tokens in the crypto market. As of press time, UNI is trading at $8.97, a nearly 30% increase in the last 24 hours. This article summarizes the reasons that have recently driven the price increase of UNI.

MoneyGram has launched a stablecoin-backed card in Colombia that lets customers hold a stable-dollar balance, spend through Visa and access cash through its network.

Anthropic plans to go public with a $2 trillion valuation, but its CEO is busy warning of the catastrophic risks of AI.

Beosin analyzes the pricing mechanisms and risks of three pre-IPO perpetual companies: Trade[XYZ], Ventures, and Aster.