China's new yuan loans year-to-date through August totaled 10.44 tln yuan, below consensus 10.78 tln and marginally above the prior 10.38 tln.

Weimaisi said it signed a memorandum of understanding with Texas Instruments to expand cooperation from coordinated new-energy-vehicle (NEV) projects to multi-track collaboration covering NEVs and AI infrastructure. TI will provide full-lifecycle support—market development, chip selection, solution customization and production ramp-up—to deliver integrated solutions aimed at upgrading power-supply architectures for AI infrastructure and data centers.

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said on the 14th it shot down a US MQ-1 drone over the Strait of Hormuz.