Accenture (ACN.N) shares rose 6.1% in U.S. premarket trading after the company agreed with Anthropic to co-invest $2.0 billion for AI evaluation.

YONHAP: South Korea's foreign minister, in New York for the 81st UN General Assembly high-level meetings, will hold trilateral talks with US Secretary of State Rubio and Japanese foreign minister MOTEGI on the 21st (local time).

PowerChina says new-type power grid will be a core growth pillar as 2026 — the opening year of China’s 15th Five-Year Plan — sees national "six networks" annual investment exceed 7 tln yuan. The company will prioritize water and energy businesses and shift resources to strategic emerging industries. Over the 15th FYP PowerChina aims to keep water+energy investment at or above 65% and have strategic-emerging businesses account for at least 70% of incremental investment. For 2026 water projects the firm has flagged >1,400 domestic "five-star" priority projects totaling about 1.7 tln yuan and roughly 150 international "five-star" priority projects totaling ~130 bln yuan, putting tracked water projects above 1,500. PowerChina says it will assign subsidiary chiefs and dedicated project teams to priority-list projects to boost bid-to-contract conversion.