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Singles' Day is an annual shopping festival hosted by Alibaba on its platforms.
Alibaba Group Holding is gearing up for its annual Singles’ Day shopping festival on major online marketplaces Taobao and Tmall, with the company expecting a record one million global brands to take part this year.
Pre-sales for the event open on Thursday, followed by the formal sale next Tuesday. The company projects more than 70 million products to feature, also a record for the festival.
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Pre-sales open on Thursday.
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The weighted index of Taiwan stocks fell 1,655.96 points today. Foreign investors set a record for the largest single-day overselling in history. However, they bucked the trend and bought 26,402 shares of leading food company Uni-President, ranking first in overbuying. Benefiting from the growth of its food and distribution businesses, Uni-President's revenue in the first three quarters hit a record high for the same period in history.
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority released the “ART” framework on the 15th to promote the responsible use of artificial intelligence in the banking industry. The framework emphasizes accountability, resilience and trustworthiness. At the same time, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority announced that the second phase of the generative AI sandbox test has achieved positive results, and the banking industry is actively exploring agent-based AI applications.

Global memory stocks have faced heavy selling pressure recently, with the stock prices of SK Hynix, Samsung and Micron falling significantly. The market is worried that China's Changxin memory technology will break through to seize market share, and there are rumors that a memory oversupply crisis may break out in 2029, putting the AI-driven memory super cycle to the test.
The Shushan double-track ship lock that diverts the Yangtze River to Huaihe River started trial operation on October 15. The ship lock is located in Anhui Province and is connected in parallel with the first-line ship lock. It will greatly improve the efficiency of 1,000-ton ships passing through the lock and help upgrade the shipping capacity of the Jianghuai Canal, China's second major north-south water transport channel.
In the two years since the "Six Mergers and Acquisitions" were released, the Shanghai Stock Exchange's main board has seen frequent restructuring activities. Data shows that the Shanghai Main Board has disclosed a total of 117 major asset restructurings and more than 1,200 non-major cash restructurings. Capital injections by central state-owned enterprises and normalized industrial mergers and acquisitions have become the core driving force for promoting the quality improvement and industrial upgrading of listed companies.

On October 15, the Philippine peso’s exchange rate against the U.S. dollar fell below the 63 mark for the first time, closing at 63.06, a record low. Affected by U.S. inflation expectations, geopolitical risks and declining foreign exchange reserves, the peso faces continued depreciation pressure.