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[Overnight global news you need to know on Friday: The Nasdaq fell 2.6%, and popular technology stocks fell one after another; Putin said that the restart of the tripartite talks between Russia, the United States, and Ukraine was not just a temporary ceasefire; OpenAI is close to completing a financing round of up to 30 billion US dollars] 1. Russian President Vladimir Putin said on the evening of the 22nd local time that Russia and the United States had reached an agreement to restart trilateral talks. The goal of the three-way talks is to discuss how to ensure the security of Russia and Ukraine when a peace deal is finally reached, rather than just a brief cease-fire. 2. Freddie Mac said in a statement Thursday that the average interest rate on a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage fell to 7.32% from 7.4%. The rate remains close to its highest level since November 2023. 3. U.S. Treasury bond futures yields continued to fall during the session, with the U.S. five-year Treasury bond yield falling 15 basis points to 4.8%; the 30-year Treasury bond yield falling 10 basis points to 5.30%. 4. According to the Investment Company Institute (ICI), U.S. money market assets increased to $7.94 trillion. 5. OpenAI has officially fully opened the decision-making API‌. The decision-making API input is priced at US$0.10 per million Tokens, and the cache input is priced at US$0.01 per million word Tokens. 6. OpenAI is reported to be about to complete a round of financing of up to US$30 billion led by UAE investors, with a pre-money valuation of US$1.25 trillion. 7. Nvidia launched Minerva, an AI operation and maintenance platform, which aims to detect faults in advance, improve GPU running time and improve AI factory output efficiency by integrating infrastructure and AI workload telemetry data. 8. SpaceX plans to gain access to at least 80,000 cellular base stations in the United States, and is currently advancing relevant negotiations with at least one leading communications infrastructure company. 9. Anthropic was sued for using copyrighted music to train the Claude AI model. According to Reservoir Music Management Company, Anthropic allegedly copied copyrighted lyrics without authorization and used them to train its Claude artificial intelligence model without paying any copyright fees in the entire process. 10. Western Digital’s first fiscal quarter net revenue was US$4.38 billion, a year-on-year increase of 55%; adjusted earnings per share were US$4.64, compared with market expectations of US$4.10. 11. The U.S. Treasury Department proposed new regulations on Thursday that would prohibit large institutional investors who hold large amounts of housing from continuing to purchase single-family homes. 12. India has extended the duty-free policy for 1 million tons of imported sugar until December 31. 13. The Panama Canal Authority released its fiscal year 2026 report. The total revenue of the canal in fiscal year 2026 reached US$6.6 billion, an increase of 16.6% from the previous fiscal year. 14. Fitch lowered the outlook for the aircraft leasing industry in 2027 to deterioration. Fitch said continued high fuel prices, airspace disruptions and rising borrowing costs could weaken airlines' credit profiles. 15. The trend of U.S. stocks was divided. The Dow rose 0.02%, the Nasdaq fell 2.6%, and the S&P 500 fell 1.21%. Popular technology stocks fell one after another, with semiconductors, storage, and chips leading the decline. The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index closed down 6.72%, Lam Group fell more than 11%, SpaceX and Kelei fell more than 9%, and SanDisk, SK Hynix, Intel, and AMD fell more than 8%. 16. The settlement price of WTI crude oil futures was US$99.47/barrel, an increase of US$2.32, or 2.39%. Brent crude oil futures settled at $113.17 per barrel, up $4.35, or 4%. 17. COMEX gold futures closed down 2.66% at US$4,039.8 per ounce; COMEX silver futures fell by 5.34% at US$54.63 per ounce.
Global market intelligence 🕐 2026-10-23 06:18

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