Taiwan's TAIEX closed up 141.39 points, or 0.3%, at 47,111.26 on Friday, Oct. 16.

The U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Roosevelt arrived at the U.S. Navy Yokosuka base in Kanagawa Prefecture on Oct. 16. The carrier departed its San Diego homeport in September and is expected to deploy to the Middle East; the stop at Yokosuka was reportedly a brief call for resupply and crew rest. It is the first port call at Yokosuka by a carrier not homeported there since 2022.

On Oct 15 in Shenzhen Jingji Zhinong signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Super Intelligent Computing Company. As a first step, Jingji’s compute unit Zixia Beifang signed a purchase contract to acquire AI servers to expand compute capacity. The partnership covers compute infrastructure and products, supply-chain and production coordination, full-life-cycle operations, and joint market/ecosystem development; the parties will set up supply-assurance protocols for equipment selection, quality verification and delivery acceptance, use demo centers and client networks for joint marketing toward government and financial compute markets, and promote applications in smart parks, hotels, smart agriculture, food cold chain and traceability to form a compute–scenario–service ecosystem.