Huatai International’s Zhangle Global Tong app notified users that, effective Beijing time Oct. 30, 2026, it will impose restrictions on mainland-resident existing investors initiating onshore business to comply with cross‑border securities regulations. The app will suspend opening new positions across all products, suspend fund inflows and stock transfers into accounts; closing sell orders, fund withdrawals and account queries will remain available. The adjustment does not apply to non‑mainland

The Bank of Japan is expected to hold policy at Friday’s meeting while declaring its near-14-year push to hit a 2% inflation target largely successful and flagging upside inflation risk, keeping the option of a December rate hike open. Officials are likely to avoid firm guidance on timing or pace, preferring a gradual tightening to balance inflation overshoot risk against the danger of disrupting strained markets, according to people familiar with BOJ thinking. The BOJ may nudge up next fiscal year’s inflation forecast in its quarterly report and signal that underlying inflation is roughly at the 2% target. Policymakers will weigh incoming data and market moves when deciding between a December or January rate increase. Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities’ chief fixed-income strategist Naomi Muguruma called the moment pivotal, saying the BOJ must both press the accelerator and apply the brakes.

市場消息：以色列媒體引述安全部門消息人士報道稱，截至目前，希伯倫已有超過2500名居民從家中撤走。