St. Louis Fed: In the week to Sep 18 the Financial Stress Index fell to -0.91 from -0.85 a week earlier; 0 indicates normal conditions and negative values indicate below-average stress.

Shaanxi Space Breeding Engineering Technology Research Center and Zhongke Satellite Technology Group Co. signed a cooperation agreement to establish a joint space‑breeding mutagenesis laboratory and announced the start of development of China’s first commercial space‑breeding dedicated satellite. The laboratory will open testing resources to research institutes and breeding units nationwide, create an open, shared space‑breeding innovation platform, and pursue joint talent training, collaborative project applications and accelerated technology transfer to support rural revitalization, modern agriculture and seed‑industry innovation.

U.S. President Trump approved new fuel-economy standards and rescinded the Biden administration's electric-vehicle mandate.