Sources said Trump's media is pitching "Truth API" to financial institutions at a three-year promotional price of USD 60,000 per month.

Social media this afternoon circulated claims of concentrated blow-ups in margin financing and securities lending accounts and mass forced liquidations, stirring investor concern. Interviews with several Chinese brokerages found the reports overstated the situation: firms say overall margin-financing risk is controllable and there is no large-scale, concentrated forced liquidation. A limited number of accounts breached warning and margin-call thresholds and were liquidated as isolated cases.

Borsa Istanbul said it will apply an up-tick rule to short sales for the remainder of the trading day.