Shekel rose 0.9% against the dollar intraday to 3.05 per dlr, a three-week high, after reports of higher voter turnout in Israel's election.

Shihang Intelligent says its self-developed marine foundation model Cangqiong CEORION has completed filing, the first model of its kind globally. The firm says the model integrates semantic understanding, environment modelling and action generation, enabling underwater perception, task assessment, path planning, autonomous execution and emergency response in a full closed-loop, and it claims exponential-scale generalisation of its general-intelligence capabilities.

US Redbook weekly same-store retail sales YoY for the week to Oct. 24 9.3% vs 9.0% prior.