Hong Kong-listed home-appliance stocks slipped in early trade: Haier Smart Home (06690.HK) down about 4%, Midea Group (00300.HK) down over 3%; Hisense Home Appliances (00921.HK) and TCL Electronics (01070.HK) also declined.

Financial Times reports Wall Street expects the US to issue roughly $1 trillion of short-term debt as borrowing costs rise.

On the evening of Sept. 20, Zhipu said its MaaS platform will soon roll out a no-content-retention feature to strengthen data privacy for enterprise and developer users. The company said the feature is not an unconditional blanket non-retention: functions that require server-side persistence, such as BatchAPI and FileAPI, are excluded, and the platform may retain related data for 30 days or longer where required by law or to investigate suspected violations or misuse.