Alibaba Cloud said on Aug. 27 it launched Qoder, an intelligent agent workbench centered on Coding and aimed at general users. Users can describe objectives in natural language rather than start from code; Qoder will invoke Coding and other tool capabilities to perform development, prototyping and data-processing tasks.

Southbound flows net bought CNY 453 mln today. On Shanghai Stock Connect, Yangtze Optical Fibre & Cable and SMIC were net bought HKD 403 mln and HKD 395 mln respectively; Huahong Hongli was the largest net seller at HKD 206 mln. On Shenzhen Stock Connect, Alibaba (HK-listed) and Yangtze Optical Fibre & Cable were net bought HKD 827 mln and HKD 631 mln; Innovent Biologics led net sales at HKD 521 mln.

Bank of Korea says consumer recovery will gradually accelerate.