[Overnight global news you need to know on Thursday: U.S. troops withdraw from Iraq, Microsoft surges by more than 37% in the third quarter and its market value increases by more than 1 trillion US dollars, international crude oil futures surge by more than 30% in the third quarter, and the probability of the Federal Reserve raising interest rates in October has dropped significantly] 1. Trump announced that the last batch of U.S. troops are leaving Iraq. 2. The U.S. core PCE price index in August was lower than expected. The probability of the Federal Reserve raising interest rates in October dropped by 13.8 percentage points from a day ago. The probability of raising interest rates at least once during the year dropped to 86.8%. 3. Goldman Sachs postponed the Federal Reserve’s interest rate hike expectations from October to December. 4. Fed Governor Cook said that inflation has been too high for too long and is committed to bringing inflation back to the 2% target level. 5. Senate Majority Leader Thune said that Congress may raise the debt ceiling after the midterm elections. 6. The U.S. Treasury Department will buy back up to $6 billion of longer-term Treasury bonds on Thursday. 7. Republican members of the U.S. Senate formally proposed a cryptocurrency tax bill. 8. U.S. Treasury yields continued to surge during the session on Wednesday. The U.S. 30-year and 10-year Treasury bond yields both hit their highest levels since 2002. 9. Micron Technology’s adjusted revenue in the fourth quarter was US$54.23 billion, a year-on-year increase of 379%. It is estimated to be US$51.49 billion, compared with US$11.32 billion in the same period last year. The company expects adjusted revenue in the first quarter to be US$60 billion to US$63 billion. 10. Synopsys expects full-year revenue of US$11 billion to US$11.2 billion, while the company originally expected US$9.69 billion to US$9.74 billion. Approximately $1 billion in shares will be repurchased in the coming months. 11. Nvidia said that CoreWeave has put Vera Rubin NVL72 into production, and Cognition tested Token throughput increased by 4.8 times. 12. Google launches Gemini 4 Argon, pricing Argon at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens. 13. Apple plans to enter the smart home market in a big way on October 13. The core of the strategy is a smart home hub code-named J490. 14. A U.S. judge signed an order allowing Paramount to complete its acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. 15. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is reported to be intensifying its investigation into Anthropic and OpenAI. 16. OpenAI and Synopsys will jointly develop the ChatGPT-Synopsys model. 17. Synopsys and Amazon signed a multi-year agreement exceeding US$1 billion to promote custom chip cooperation. 18. The American BlueQubit research team used IBM's latest Nighthawk r2 quantum processor to complete a random quantum circuit sampling experiment, generating 1 million samples in just 19 seconds. 19. South Korea will invest US$120 billion to build eight nuclear reactors in the United States, two of which will use South Korea's APR 1400 design. 20. SK Hynix has expanded the outsourcing scale of storage semiconductor flip-chip packaging and increased the number of cooperative outsourcers. The products outsourced this time are DDR4 and DDR5 DRAM. 21. Toronto-Dominion Bank of Canada plans to launch a C$10 billion stock buyback plan. 22. The three major U.S. stock indexes closed with mixed results. The Nasdaq rose 0.24%, rose 1.86% in September, and rose 2.47% in the third quarter; the S&P 500 index fell 0.25%, fell 0.45% in September, and rose 2.03% in the third quarter; the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.86%, fell 4.29% in September, and fell 2.7% in the third quarter. Microsoft surged by more than 37% in the third quarter, with its market value increasing by more than 1 trillion U.S. dollars; Apple rose by more than 15% in the third quarter, and Nvidia rose by more than 14% in the third quarter; Tesla fell by more than 15% in the third quarter, and Intel fell by more than 13% in the third quarter. Major European stock indexes closed lower collectively, with Germany's DAX30 index closing down 0.7%. 23. The international crude oil futures settlement price closed higher. The November contract of WTI crude oil futures rose by 1.16%, with a cumulative increase of more than 5% in September, and a cumulative increase of more than 31% in the third quarter; the November contract of Brent crude oil futures rose by 0.92%, with a cumulative increase of about 11% in September, and a cumulative increase of more than 33% in the third quarter. 24. COMEX gold futures rose 0.22%, fell nearly 7% in September, and rose more than 4% in the third quarter; COMEX silver futures fell 0.65%, fell nearly 10% in September, and rose nearly 3% in the third quarter.