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Roaring exports lifted China’s economic growth in the third quarter of this year, with factory output growing much faster than consumer spending. China’s GDP grew by 4.5% year-on-year between July and September, the National Bureau of Statistics of China reported on Monday. The figures were better than economists had expected and up from the second quarter’s growth rate of 4.3%. China’s economy has now grown by 4.6% in the first nine months of the year, putting it on track to hit the government’s 2026 target of 4.5%-5% growth without extra stimulus measures. Industrial production rose 5.5% in September, up from 5.2% in August, while retail sales only increased 1.1%, up from 0.4%. Duncan Wrigley, the chief China economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, said Beijing’s policymakers were likely to conclude that their efforts to stabilise headline growth in the third quarter were successful. “Headline industrial production rose in September partly as coalmines resumed operations after safety inspections prompted by a major accident.

Saudi national Abdulrahman Alfozan is accused of planting a recording device in an executive conference room at OpenAI headquarters in San Francisco.

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Summary:The euro opened lower on escalating riots in France, drone incidents over the Black Sea and US warnings over EU tech rules, then recovered most of the gapOil edged lower after Trump signed an order waiving some sanctions and duties on Russian energy, with the US set to receive more than 300,000 tonnes of Russian dieselHouthi attacks on Saudi Arabia and Iran’s conditions for reopening the Strait of Hormuz limited oil’s downsidePutin has proposed a three-way meeting with Trump and Xi on Ukraine, possibly at next month’s APEC summitChina’s Q3 GDP grew 4.5% y/y, beating forecasts, with September retail sales and industrial output firmer, though investment stayed weakRBA Assistant Governor Kent said neutral rates appear to be rising and questioned whether policy is restrictive enoughBOJ Governor Ueda said anchoring underlying inflation is becoming more important and that appropriate rate hikes help stabilise JGBsGold edged higher, AI data centre financing came under scrutiny, and crypto network Qubic halted after a wallet theft The euro opened the week lower as escalating riots in France added to a run of risk headlines in Europe.

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