BREAKING: Hong Kong's GDP surged +5.2% YoY in Q3 2026, its 2nd-strongest growth rate since Q3 2021. This follows +4.2% YoY growth in Q2 and marks its 15th consecutive quarterly economic expansion. This comes as goods exports surged +30.4% YoY, up from +28.9% in Q2 and +23.8% in Q1, driven by surging global demand for AI-related electronics. At the same time, inbound tourism and domestic infrastructure investment further boosted economic activity. In the first 9 months of 2026, Hong Kong’s GDP surged +5.1% YoY, the strongest growth for that period in 5 years. Hong Kong is seeing transformative growth amid the global AI investment cycle.

BREAKING: Democratic nominee Scott Colom added slightly to his narrow lead over incumbent Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith in the Mississippi Senate election as two key ballot deadlines hit, per CNBC Colom, a local district attorney, as of 4:30 p.m. ET, was ahead of Hyde-Smith by 2,607 votes, out of 953,547 votes counted, with an estimated 97% of the votes in. That’s a margin of just .27 percentage points.

BREAKING: China’s PPI inflation rose +5.7% YoY in October, its largest YoY increase since June 2022. This also marks its 3rd consecutive monthly acceleration. By comparison, PPI stood at -3.6% in both June and July 2025. The surge was driven by higher energy and non-ferrous metal prices, alongside growing demand for AI-related hardware, pushing factory costs higher. Meanwhile, producer purchasing prices, which measure what factories pay for raw materials, energy and other production inputs, jumped +7.9% YoY, the largest increase since June 2022. Inflation is back in China.