On Oct 21, the Panama Canal Authority reported FY26 (Oct 2025–Sep 2026) revenue of $6.6 billion, up 16.6% YoY. The canal logged 13,951 transits in the year, a 4.1% increase from FY25, driven mainly by energy-sector and container shipping demand.

日本40年期国债收益率下跌3.5个基点，至4.015%。

Oct. 22, 2026, Hangzhou — At the World Physical AI Conference, Yushu Technology chairman and CTO Wang Xingxing said leading large-model developers have, to some extent, achieved internal model self‑evolution, with models writing code and collecting data while humans provide guidance. He warned diffusion from technical breakthroughs to broad public use typically takes 5–10 years, noted physical AI is already showing early signs of breakthrough, and identified aligning AI models’ inputs and outputs with real robots as the central challenge for embodied intelligence to move past the ChatGPT moment.