Korea Exchange (KRX) activated the sidecar mechanism for the KOSPI index.

Axios reports Democrats privately view Texas as the red state most likely to flip, followed by Ohio; Iowa and Alaska are considered within reach.

Hainan Computing Power Technology Co. and Tencent Cloud signed a strategic cooperation agreement on Oct. 29 to jointly build an AI+compute integrated solution for Hainan government and enterprise customers, focusing on compute infrastructure, large-model token services and AI office applications. Under the token cooperation, the parties will pursue commercial arrangements around large AI model services and explore token cross-border deployments and cross-border compute export. Tencent Cloud will supply Hainan Computing Power and its clients with HPC, intelligent compute, storage and networking resources and services to provide a stable, elastic compute supply for large-scale training and inference on the provincial AI public service platform.