U.S. Treasury expects Treasury auction sizes to remain steady over the next few weeks.

Auctions of equity stakes in Chinese small- and medium-sized banks have repeatedly failed to attract buyers, including multiple discounted rounds. Wang Pengbo, senior analyst at Botong Consulting, advises three market-focused steps: clarify shareholder risk hierarchy and separate controlling shareholders from dispersed minorities; proactively coordinate with judicial disposal agencies for large problematic holders, pre-identify potential transferees and shorten auction cycles to avoid repeated failures and adverse market sentiment; routinely disclose the underlying reasons for equity changes and explicitly attribute risk to shareholder individuals rather than bank asset quality or operating fundamentals to steady markets, depositors and interbank counterparties; and comprehensively review shareholder-related loans, tighten related-party transaction approvals, reduce high related-party credit concentrations and sever channels that would transmit shareholder debt risk into bank loan portfolios.

Dalian Commodity Exchange said coke options will begin trading on Sept. 2, 2026 (Wednesday). There will be a call auction from 08:55–09:00 and continuous trading opens at 09:00; night trading will start on the evening of Sept. 2. The position limit is 5,000 contracts; options position limits are separate from coke futures. For non-futures-company members and clients, for any contract month the sum of long call positions plus short put positions, and the sum of long put positions plus short call positions, may not exceed the position limit. Positions held by accounts with actual control relationships will be aggregated.