CFTC data showed that in the week to Oct. 20 speculative net short positions in CBOT U.S. Treasury futures fell across the curve: 2-year net shorts down 54,796 contracts to 856,783; 10-year net shorts down 23,809 contracts to 964,293; 5-year net shorts down 6,095 contracts to 1,074,109.

Oct 24, 2026 — The World Young Scientists Summit opened in Wenzhou, Zhejiang. Organizers published two market-relevant outputs: a global Young Scientist Vanguard List 2035 for quantum materials and quantum information identifying 20 promising young researchers as an observation window on emerging quantum talent; and an Embodied Intelligence Young Scientist Distribution and Mobility Report mapping talent distribution and flows in embodied intelligence to inform international collaborative innovation in AI.

Maslennikov, director of the foreign ministry’s European Affairs Department, said Moscow is adopting retaliatory measures in response to Western detentions of ships in the Baltic and that measures could be asymmetric. He accused NATO and EU members of arbitrarily detaining vessels sailing under standard rules, calling the actions maritime extortion, and gave no details on the countermeasures.