Bloomberg reports that Vietnam’s central bank is under mounting pressure to keep policy rates stable as the Iran conflict fuels inflation and raises banks' funding costs.
A government aim for a 10% growth target is contributing to stronger demand for credit.
The 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai for their work on nonlinear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis.
The Nobel Committee noted that their research addressed a long-standing question about how homochirality can arise spontaneously. Committee Chair Heiner Linke described the reactions as remarkable.
In 1986, Kagan identified a new approach to steering chemical reactions that allows one mirror-image form to come to dominate far beyond prior expectations.
Soai contributed subsequent milestones: a 1995 publication unveiling the first chemical reaction with the potential to generate homochiral products, and a 2003 achievement in which a reaction yielded only one of the two mirror-image forms.
Japan Exchange Group Inc. said Kioxia Holdings Corp.'s weighting in the benchmark Topix index will be increased following a recent review, Bloomberg reported.
The move has raised expectations that passive inflows could support Kioxia's shares.
Firelight's on-chain protection is now active for Sentora's USD Protected Vault and Protected RWA Vaults, delivering coverage directly within DeFi vaults.
The coverage terms are registered on-chain, external firms verify qualifying events, and payout capital sits outside the protected protocols to back claims.
In a separate development, Firelight disclosed an $8 million funding round led by Gumi Cryptos Capital, with participation from Tribe Capital and Maven 11.
Evernorth Holdings, the Ripple-backed firm pursuing the largest publicly traded pure-play XRP treasury, has moved its Nasdaq listing to October 12 after an administrative issue disclosed on October 6.
The company said the delay is not expected to affect the closing of its merger with Armada Acquisition Corp. II, a point noted by BeInCrypto.
Armada Acquisition Corp. II shareholders approved the merger on September 30, and Evernorth expects to hold about 473 million XRP and roughly $300 million in gross cash proceeds at closing.
India's foreign exchange reserves declined for the fourth consecutive week, dipping to $734.6 billion, according to Jin10. The level sits about $50 billion below the peak of $785.71 billion reached on September 4.
A note in RBI Governor Malhotra's statement attributes the decline to the central bank's dollar sales in the spot market to curb the rupee's slide, along with foreign-exchange swap operations to absorb excess liquidity.
Even with RBI support, the rupee continued to weaken as elevated oil prices, rising U.S. Treasury yields, and foreign outflows from stocks weighed on sentiment.
Prosecutors said two Hong Kong residents funded the surveillance of a Taiwanese lawmaker and his family, leading to the indictment of four Taiwanese individuals in a case authorities described as transnational repression.
The case centers on paid monitoring of the lawmaker and relatives.
Dominion, a Solana-based tokenized silver venture, said it will shut down following a September security incident that triggered a significant SILV sell-off and drained liquidity.
ChainCatcher reported the team described rebuilding as requiring more capital than remains accessible to the project.
The company said most of its remaining liquid assets have been allocated to a refund program, enabling eligible pre-attack SILV holders to redeem at $63 per token. SILV was designed as a Solana token backed 1:1 by physical silver, with each token representing one troy ounce.
On September 11, attackers gained control of three of five multisig keys and dumped about 46,909 SILV on thinly traded decentralized exchanges. The pre-attack nominal value was around $3 million, and the attackers ultimately realized about $238,000.
Perseus Mining's chief executive, Craig Jones, says fluctuations in gold prices are complicating how buyers and sellers value target companies, leaving many mergers and acquisitions in limbo before they close. He added that activity in the sector remains robust, but deal execution has become the main hurdle as buyers and sellers operate under divergent gold-price assumptions.
Industry coverage noted that higher bullion prices have supported several deals, including Northern Star Resources' takeover of De Grey Mining and Equinox Gold's acquisition of Calibre Mining. At the same time, larger transactions have struggled, such as Zijin Gold's planned $4 billion bid for Allied Gold and Gold Fields' A$38.7 billion approach to Northern Star that has stalled.
Goldman Sachs' sales trading desk cautions that Samsung Electronics shares could experience greater volatility on Thursday as several market events align.
The firm notes that Samsung's upcoming third-quarter preview coincides with options expirations and the rebalancing of multiple semiconductor-focused exchange-traded funds, a combination that could amplify price moves.
In an institutional client briefing, the desk said seven semiconductor ETFs with a combined asset base of around 19 trillion won are due to rebalance. Market participants are expected to passively trim Samsung exposure while increasing passive holdings in SK Hynix, SK Square, and semiconductor equipment stocks. Samsung's share buyback is anticipated to be completed by October 6.
Key factors to monitor include whether foreign capital returns and whether Samsung can sustain its earnings momentum and guidance going forward.
Trading activity in September skewed toward selling, with long-only funds roughly balanced between long and short positions, and hedge funds displaying a stronger selling tilt.