Microsoft (MSFT.O) raised its quarterly dividend to $0.98 per share from $0.91.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Bessent said he earned tens of millions of dollars in the past while providing assistance to Argentina.

Douyin e-commerce and the Rural Economic Research Center of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs released a 2026 Harvest Festival agricultural consumption report. Over the past year Douyin helped sell 13.5 billion orders of agricultural specialty products; sales volume has risen cumulatively more than 90% over the past three years. Creators posted 493 million short promotional videos and total livestream explanation time for agricultural products reached 53.31 million hours. Live-stream e-commerce is identified as a key incremental channel for boosting agricultural product sales.