Foreign investor outflows and rising global bond yields are likely to remain key headwinds for Indian markets, even as a recovery in corporate earnings is expected to drive equity returns in the near term, HSBC Mutual Fund said in its equity and debt market reviews.

The contracts give institutions a regulated hedge on two smaller-cap tokens, and six months of CME trading in UNI would matter for Bitwise's pending spot Uniswap ETF.

Asian markets traded mixed on Monday, October 19, as investors awaited China's third-quarter GDP data. Japan's Nikkei 225 fell 2.26% and South Korea's Kospi dropped 1.56%, while Australia's ASX 200 advanced 0.3%. Brent crude slipped below $109 a barrel but held most of last week's gains as conflicts persisted in the Middle East and Eastern Europe. Investors are also watching September-quarter earnings from 35 companies, including Bajaj Finance and UltraTech Cement.

Micron's board has raised its share repurchase authorization to $35.16 billion from $10 billion. The expanded program takes effect on December 9 and could serve as a catalyst for the stock. Analysts expect the buyback to help push the company's global DRAM market share toward nearly 30%. The current 12-month average price target is $1,621.67, implying about 84.5% upside.

SINGAPORE: Oil prices slipped on Monday after US President Donald Trump waived sanctions and tariffs on Russia that may lead to more Russian fuel exports.

Woodside Energy shares rose 49% over the past 12 months. The company's average realised price climbed 20% year over year to US$74 per barrel of oil equivalent, even as total production fell 13% to 86.5 million barrels of oil equivalent. Net profit rose 27% to US$1.67 billion and free cash flow surged 159% to US$352 million, allowing the board to lift the interim dividend by 8% to 57 cents per share. The Scarborough project is 98% complete and remains on track to produce its first LNG in the fourth quarter of 2026.

FIS has made its AML Investigations Agent commercially available to US banks, including institutions that are not its core clients. The agent assembles investigation evidence alongside customer context, links every output to a source record and cannot close a case without analyst confirmation. Design partner Amalgamated Bank projects cuts of more than 90 percent in Level 1 alert review, about 98 percent in Level 2 case work and more than 80 percent in suspicious activity report drafting, figures drawn from the bank's own workflow analysis rather than live use. FIS cites US anti-money-laundering operations spending of $35bn to $40bn a year and industry false positive rates of 90 to 95 percent.

Raw sugar futures have climbed sharply since summer, with the March 2027 contract settling at 20.85 cents per pound. Prices rose 21.5% in August alone, the largest monthly gain since October 2010. Poor weather and weaker production forecasts in several major growing regions drove the rally. Candy prices at retail have also moved higher, gaining nearly 80% over the past five years.