[Overnight global news you need to know on Friday: There is new news in the US-Iran negotiations, many Federal Reserve officials believe that US inflation is too high, the US debt crisis continues to brew, Meta hit a new high since September last year, and Intel hit a new closing high since July] 1. It is reported that representatives of the United States and Iran are discussing a plan to gradually end the war. Iran needs to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, while the United States needs to lift the economic blockade on Iran. 2. Federal Reserve Chairman Paulson said that the Federal Reserve may need to raise interest rates again to reduce inflation and support the policy path of reducing inflation to 2%. 3. Fed Hammark said that the longer inflation remains high, the more difficult it will be to bring it back to target. 4. Federal Reserve Chairman Barkin said that the persistence of inflation will become more obvious this summer. 5. The U.S. Treasury Department stated that it conducted a liquidity repurchase operation of 20- to 30-year U.S. Treasury bonds worth $4.078 billion on September 24. 6. In intraday trading on Thursday, the yield on U.S. 10- to 30-year Treasury bonds hit a multi-year high. The 10-year government bond yield hit its highest level since 2007, the 30-year government bond yield reached a 22-year high, and the 7-year government bond bidding yield hit its highest level since 2009. 7. The U.S. International Trade Commission officially launched a Section 337 investigation into dynamic random access memory equipment and its downstream products and components. Micron Technology and others are named defendants. 8. The U.S. Department of Energy will announce an investment plan of nearly US$2 billion on Thursday, which is expected to add more than 23 gigawatts of power transmission capacity. 9. Anthropic and AKAMAI reached a US$11.6 billion artificial intelligence computing power deal. 10. Google announced the launch of the open source GKE agent migration tool and Gemini 3.8 Live model. 11. According to reports, Blue Origin implemented its first round of external capital financing, raising US$10 billion at a valuation of US$140 billion, with Bezos investing US$2 billion. 12. Meta released Muse Charm, a handheld AI device equipped with an approximately 2-inch OLED touch screen and a 5G modem. It is expected to be launched before December. 13. Paramount Skydance plans to raise approximately $44.4 billion in additional secured debt. 14. Qualcomm announced the renewal of its global patent licensing agreement with Apple, effective April 1, 2027. 15. Amazon is reported to spend about US$100 million to build a robot manufacturing factory. 16. Costco’s total revenue in the fourth quarter was US$95.72 billion, compared with the estimate of US$94.92 billion. 17. It is reported that GoDaddy, an American company that provides Internet hosting services, has received an acquisition offer from Gen Digital, and the two parties are in the early stages of negotiations. 18. ADARX Pharmaceuticals said it would guide IPO pricing to the upper limit of the range or above. 19. The three major U.S. stock indexes closed with mixed gains, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average falling 0.31%, the S&P 500 Index falling 0.02%, and the Nasdaq Composite Index rising 0.01%. Meta rose more than 4%, hitting a new high since September last year. The company released the handheld AI device Muse Charm. Intel rose nearly 4%, hitting a new closing high since July. The company cooperates with Alibaba Cloud on a lightweight cloud browser for massive agents. European stock markets closed slightly lower, with Germany's DAX30 index falling 0.61%. 20. The settlement price of international crude oil futures closed sharply higher. WTI crude oil futures November contract rose 2.66%, Brent crude oil futures November contract rose 3.41%. 21. COMEX gold futures fell 0.19% to US$4,310.1 per ounce; COMEX silver futures fell 1.06% to US$64.28 per ounce. 22. The Houthi armed forces in Yemen said they attacked a "sensitive target" in the Saudi capital Riyadh and a Saudi Aramco oil company facility in the Red Sea coastal city of Yanbu. 23. U.S. defense officials said that about 60 commercial ships passed through the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday local time, carrying the highest volume of crude oil in a single day since early July. 24. Russia has lowered its oil product export forecast in 2026 to 98.5 million tons.