According to Jin10, Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf condemned multiple U.S. strikes on Iran on September 2, saying they caused the deaths of many children. He said a school in Minab, a gymnasium in Lamerd, and a wedding in Kuhestak were struck in succession, killing people including children. Iran said the United States launched strikes on multiple locations in southern Iran on the night of September 1, hitting a wedding venue in Kuhestak in Hormozgan Province and killing four people and injuring 50. Iran also said that on February 28, a large-scale U.S. and Israeli military operation struck a primary school in Minab in southern Iran, killing 168 children.

Las Vegas Sands Corp. increased its holding in Sands China (01928) by 1.62 million shares on Tuesday, according to Hong Kong Stock Exchange data. The shares were bought at an average price of HK$13.83 each, for a total of HK$22.4046 million, and the stake rose to 75.01%, ETNet reported.

Nomura International said back-to-back interest rate hikes by the European Central Bank could lift the euro toward its year-end target of $1.20, according to Bloomberg. Dominic Bunning, Nomura International's head of G10 FX strategy, made the comment in an interview on Bloomberg Television.

B.AI said on September 2 that its Responses API now supports DeepSeek series models. According to Odaily, developers can use a B.AI API key to call the DeepSeek models supported by the platform directly in the Codex client. B.AI had previously supported GPT series models through Codex. The company said the new integration expands model options in the Codex environment, allowing developers to switch between DeepSeek and GPT after simple API key and Base URL configuration for code generation, understanding, debugging, refactoring, and collaboration tasks.

Hengbao Co. said on September 2 that its stock had posted an abnormal trading move after its closing price deviated by more than 20% over two consecutive trading days, September 1 and September 2, according to Jiemian News. The company said market attention has recently risen around the digital yuan and related products. Hengbao said it has made a series of arrangements around the digital yuan in recent years and has built up related technology and product reserves while pushing market expansion, but the business remains in the pilot stage. It added that revenue from the business accounted for less than 5% of the company’s revenue in 2024, 2025 and the first half of 2026, and that the segment has not yet reached scale and has had only a limited impact on earnings.

China's central bank governor Pan Gongsheng attended and spoke at the G20 finance ministers and central bank governors meeting in Asheville, the United States, on August 31-September 1. According to Jiemian News, participants discussed the global economic outlook, growth, global imbalances and sovereign debt in developing countries, and said the world economy remains resilient despite multiple risks. Pan said trade frictions and protectionism are weighing on global growth by disrupting supply chains, lifting inflation and unsettling market expectations. He urged stronger multilateral cooperation, better macroeconomic policy coordination and a debt solution based on the principles of common action and fair burden-sharing, and said growth is the fundamental way to resolve developing-country debt problems and restore debt sustainability. Pan also said China's economy is generally stable and improving, with continued structural optimization, steady financial markets and no change in the underlying conditions supporting long-term growth. He said China's government will continue to push economic restructuring as a strategic focus in the 15th Five-Year Plan, while China will not deliberately pursue a trade surplus, will expand domestic demand and maintain high-level opening-up. He added that the People's Bank of China will keep advancing the transformation of its monetary policy framework, improve the interest-rate system and continue to implement an appropriately loose monetary policy.

Fosun International said on August 28 that its Club Med Lifestyle Group has filed for a main-board listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, according to Jiemian News. The filing would make the resort operator an independent listed company after Club Med was taken private in 2015, listed in Hong Kong in 2018 as part of Fosun Tourism Group, and delisted again in March 2025. The prospectus says Club Med operated 69 premium all-inclusive resorts across more than 40 countries and regions on six continents as of the filing, with 2025 revenue of 1.949 billion euros, up from 1.862 billion euros in 2023 and 1.923 billion euros in 2024. Net profit fell to 10.917 million euros in 2025 from 68.768 million euros in 2023, while average daily bed prices rose to 261 euros in the first half of 2026 from 220 euros in 2023. The group said it plans to use IPO proceeds to expand its global resort network, upgrade products, build digital and AI capabilities, and strengthen its capital structure and operations.

China's central bank governor Pan Gongsheng attended and spoke at the Group of 20 finance ministers and central bank governors meeting in Asheville, the U.S., on August 31-September 1, according to Jiemian News. Pan said trade frictions and protectionism are weighing on the global economy by disrupting supply chains, lifting inflation and unsettling market expectations. He urged countries to uphold multilateralism, make full use of the G20 financial cooperation platform, strengthen macroeconomic policy coordination and work together to address global risks. Pan said sovereign debt resolution should follow the principles of common action and fair burden-sharing, and that the G20 should help ensure effective implementation of the comparability of treatment principle under a common framework. He also said economic growth is the fundamental way to ease debt problems in developing countries and restore debt sustainability. On global imbalances, Pan said rising trade protectionism, the overuse of national security concerns and unpredictable policy environments have worsened imbalances in recent years, and called on surplus countries to boost consumption and investment while deficit countries cut fiscal deficits and raise domestic savings. He said countries should set medium- and long-term policy plans and stick to them.

Dongwu Securities said on September 2 that it recently received approval from China's Securities Regulatory Commission for its securities investment fund custody qualification, according to Jiemian News. The company said the qualification has now been approved.

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