港交所：2026年8月證券市場日均成交額爲2534億港元。

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued the AI SME Entrepreneurship Support Plan (2026–2028). It urges localities to leverage industry strengths to cultivate concentrated, high‑quality AI SME clusters. Qualified areas, including national AI innovation application pilot zones, are encouraged to build coordinated compute supply‑demand platforms, inclusive compute centres and other infrastructure/services to promote wider sharing of compute and data resources. The plan directs national high‑tech industrial development zones to prioritise new AI tracks and step up cultivation and support for SMEs.

US August seasonally adjusted manufacturing employment +16k vs +5k expected; prior revised up to +14k from +5k.