Macro trends, industry shifts and company watching, with an eye on the structure behind the numbers.
OBS Global held its grand launch in Dubai, UAE, with His Highness Sheikh Abdulhakim Al Maktoum joining representatives from 103 nationalities for a simultaneous ribbon cutting. Organizers say the event marks the start of a season of international business connections and opportunity.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says the EU aims to roll out a new trade diversification measure as soon as December to address its trade imbalance with China. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and French President Emmanuel Macron have pressed for faster action at recent European Council talks.
The 140th China Import and Export Fair opened October 14 in Guangzhou, with Premier Li Qiang delivering the keynote address. China's goods trade rose 17.6 percent year on year in the first eight months of 2026, reaching 34.78 trillion yuan, customs data show.
China's CXMT says it has achieved a breakthrough in next generation LPDDR5X memory chip design and is nearing the leading edge of global production, a claim that has pressured Asian tech shares and put established players Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron on notice.
China's passenger car exports rose 64 percent in September even as domestic sales fell, data from the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers show. The EU has set a 350,000-vehicle annual quota on hybrid imports starting in December, while BYD and other Chinese automakers keep expanding into new overseas markets.
China's Communist Party and State Council have jointly issued guidelines spelling out 19 measures across five priority areas to cultivate new quality productive forces, placing technological innovation at the center alongside a broader push on AI Plus and supporting policy.
