The UK has set up a special flood taskforce and will meet this week to assess preparedness for a potentially wetter, windier and stormier winter following a record-hot summer. The Met Office says the likelihood of such conditions has "significantly increased" and links a higher chance of above-average autumn rainfall to El Nifio, which it warns may be the strongest in memory and is expected to peak around year-end. The Environment Agency says roughly 6.3 million households and businesses in Engl

The Stock Exchange of Thailand will implement revised short-selling and high-frequency trading rules from Nov. 16. Stocks priced 5–50 THB will trade with reduced tick sizes to narrow bid-ask spreads and cut trading costs. Short selling will be restricted to higher-liquidity instruments: SET100 constituents, single-stock futures underlyings, depositary receipts and ETFs; short sales will be permitted only at or above the last traded price. The exchange will levy extra fees on accounts that submit large numbers of orders with relatively low execution rates. It will eliminate per-security dynamic price bands, relax restrictions on HFT participants’ eligible instruments, and remove minimum order resting-time requirements to improve order management. Trading hours for foreign-linked derivative warrants and ETFs will start at 08:00 (two hours earlier) from Nov. 16; closing times unchanged.

市場消息：沙特利雅得哈立德國王國際機場襲擊事件中至少12人死亡、超過50人受傷。