Alibaba Cloud said on September 21 New Ziguang Group Co., Ltd. signed an AI full-stack cooperation agreement with Alibaba Cloud. The partners will build on Qoder and Qianwen Office to collaborate on intelligent office, industry applications and overseas expansion, and to accelerate AI deployment across semiconductor chips, ICT digital infrastructure and AI applications.

At the morning close, China’s main futures contracts were mixed. Lithium carbonate led gains, up over 4%, pulp rose more than 3%, and asphalt and benzene gained around 2%. Shanghai crude (SC) dropped over 6%; rapeseed meal and fuel oil fell more than 2%; liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) was down about 2%. Polypropylene, low-sulfur fuel oil (LU), live hogs, plastics and soybean meal declined over 1%.

HKEX filing shows Standard Chartered (02888.HK) repurchased 351,727 shares on other exchanges on Sept 18 for £8.1 mln.