Canada industrial product price index (IPPI) Aug MoM +1.3% vs 0.0% expected; previous +0.6%.

UN Secretary-General Guterres urged global cooperation to establish safeguards for artificial intelligence ahead of the UN General Assembly high-level week, saying AI’s potential is large but development is outpacing understanding of its risks. He noted some developers have called for pauses or formal safeguards and said governments must take responsibility; because AI and its risks cross borders, isolated, unverifiable and unevenly enforced voluntary pauses will not resolve the problem.

Sept 16 — Pinglu Canal opened. Nanning customs supervised 1,679.8 tonnes of imports and exports via the canal on its first day, chiefly auto parts, plywood, sodium sulfate and fiberboard.