Senegal's president plans to visit Abu Dhabi on Wednesday.

Consultancy APK-Inform raised its 2026 Ukraine grain production forecast 7.8% to 65.2 mln tonnes (previously 60.5 mln). It lifted its 2026 wheat forecast to 25.0 mln tonnes from 22.6 mln and its corn forecast to 32.3 mln tonnes from 29.8 mln.

Exclusive industry-sourced data: 14 Chinese wealth managers each with >CNY1trn AUM (6 from state-owned banks, 8 from joint-stock banks), representing roughly 80% of the market, held CNY27.4trn in outstanding assets at end-Aug and recorded >CNY280bn net inflow MoM. The Banking Wealth Management Registration and Custody Center put end-June market outstanding at CNY33.66trn; adding the 14 firms’ July and August inflows (CNY1.46trn and CNY0.28trn) implies a market size near CNY35.4trn. Jan–Aug net increase for these 14 firms was about CNY1.96trn. By product type, option-embedded products rose ~CNY1.98trn, non-cash pure-bond products rose ~CNY176bn, and cash products contracted by >CNY180bn.