Xi Jinping will make a state visit to the United States from Sept. 23 to 25.

ING analyst Francesco Pesole said losses by the CDU in German state elections are likely to have only a limited impact on the euro. He said the results mainly reflect local dynamics rather than a verdict on Merz’s reform agenda. Still, falling CDU support and increasing political fragmentation could make advancing reforms harder, which clouds the euro outlook but is unlikely to supplant interest-rate differentials and oil prices as the currency’s primary drivers.

Sept 21 — Yingxi Intelligent (03696.HK) said it signed a cooperation agreement worth tens of millions of dollars with a frontier foundational-model lab. Using the MMAI Gym training framework, the partners will jointly develop, validate and push commercial deployment of a series of advanced models tailored for biological research.