Al Jazeera cites Kyiv mayor saying Russian attacks across multiple regions injured one person and ignited fires at warehouses, transport facilities and two gas stations.

Per the LME positions report for the week to Sept 18, 2026, funds held: copper net long 39.8k lots, down 827 lots week-on-week; aluminium net long 144.1k lots, down 3,542; zinc net long 53.8k lots, down 5,383; nickel net long 13.4k lots, down 2,899; lead net short 25.1k lots, down 642; tin net long 1.92k lots, down 512.

Wuhan municipal committee met on the 22nd to advance high‑quality integrated circuit industry development. The city pledged to cultivate IC clusters and fully support Yangtze Memory Technologies and other leading firms to raise capital and expand capacity, while nurturing specialized, refined and innovative SMEs and promoting integrated innovation across large, medium and small firms. Wuhan said it will intensify investment attraction under the Wutongshu Plan, targeting core IC development directions to recruit upstream and downstream suppliers. The city will strengthen innovation resources and back universities and tech firms to tackle frontier technologies, leveraging the National Advanced Storage Industry Innovation Center, Jiufengshan Laboratory and Jiangcheng Laboratory to accelerate local commercialization and industrialization of research outcomes.