ANTHROPIC: service outages affecting multiple products have been resolved.

The PBOC released October 2026 financials: social financing stock 469.16 tln yuan, up 7.2% YoY; M2 359.06 tln yuan, up 7.1% YoY. Both exceed nominal GDP growth and align with official growth and price-level targets. Orient Jincheng chief macro analyst Wang Qing said the probability of using broad-based monetary tools—comprehensive rate cuts and reserve requirement ratio reductions—before year-end has fallen; regulators will instead direct banks and financial institutions to increase lending to priority economic areas and weak links, boosting loans for six-networks construction and the five major priority initiatives.

U.S. media reported on the 12th that senior Democratic leaders say once Democrats formally control Congress in January, several senior Trump administration officials, including Secretary of State Rubio, could be targets of investigations and impeachment.