Oil rose on Friday as renewed US‑Iran hostilities and rising Middle East tensions pushed market supply concerns higher. Brent is up 7.6% this week and WTI up 10.4%, marking their largest weekly gains since the week of July 20. ANZ raised its near‑term Brent forecast to $95/bl and warned of upside risk should the conflict intensify. Analysts say high inventories have so far absorbed the initial supply shock, but shrinking buffers are making it harder to sustain supply‑demand balance.

Guangzhou and Hong Kong are planning a deep cooperation zone for the horse industry; preparatory work is advancing. Guangzhou’s Conghua district will push a “one core, three zones” horse-industry layout, accelerate construction of supporting facilities around the Conghua racecourse under an agreement with the Hong Kong Jockey Club, and develop horse-themed cultural tourism while seeking to pilot cross-border tourism and medical/retirement-resort projects to expand the industry chain and position the Greater Bay Area as a global equine-sports and horse-industry hub.

China’s Implementation Plan for Promoting Coordinated Digital and Green Transformation (2026–2030) targets green, low‑carbon development of telecom base stations. It urges adoption of low‑power chips, high‑efficiency power amplifiers and other energy‑saving hardware, and phased introduction of liquid cooling and natural‑cooling heat‑dissipation technologies to lift base‑station energy efficiency. The plan promotes centralized RAN architectures with shared baseband resources to reduce requirements for station rooms, power and air conditioning; expands use of outdoor compact intelligent power systems, differentiated backup power and on‑site green generation. It requires finer‑grained operational energy controls, including load‑sensing, intelligent management and dynamic energy‑saving technologies to match supply to base‑station load. The document also deepens base‑station co‑build and sharing, and encourages simplified network topologies, staggered power use and prioritising green power to concentrate site layouts and clean energy supply.