Harvest Nasdaq ETF will be suspended from market open on Sept. 30 until 10:30 that day. Redemptions will continue to be processed as normal during the suspension.

At a State Council Information Office briefing on the 29th, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs Zhang Zhu said future efforts to boost grain production capacity should focus on large-scale improvements in per-hectare yields.

Iran’s foreign minister told IRNA he met with Qatar mediators on Monday to discuss proposals to present to the United States and has set conditions for reopening the Strait of Hormuz; Iran’s Supreme Leader has stressed the strait will reopen only once those conditions are met. He said Iran has conveyed the conditions to the US and the international community and has proposed responses if the US claims to seek an agreement or peaceful resolution. He will return to Tehran within hours and will not stay in New York to await a US reply; Qatar will pass any US response to Iran via appropriate channels. Communications between Qatar and Pakistan mediators remain open and, following Iran’s proposal, have entered a more serious phase.