Punchbowl reports a U.S. House committee is negotiating arrangements for NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang to testify next week.

UK construction output MoM Sep +0.8% vs -0.1% expected; Aug revised to -0.5% from -0.20%.

The Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission said the Ministry of Public Security, the Supreme People’s Procuratorate and the Supreme People’s Court have recently placed 18 major food‑safety criminal cases under centralized supervision, including the "formaldehyde cabbage", fake imported health supplements and sulfur‑treated bamboo shoots cases. Authorities said they will continue a high‑pressure crackdown and strict, law‑based prosecution of food‑safety crimes.