The CFTC has delayed approval of futures tied to AI-chip rental prices, extending its review by at least 60 days, the Financial Times reports. The extension could push a planned CME launch — contracts referencing NVIDIA H100 and B200 rental rates using an index from Silicon Data — to at least early 2027; the decision has not been announced publicly. Regulators are soliciting comment on how to oversee risks in the emerging AI compute market. Spot compute rental trading exists but no open long-dat

歐洲央行管委內格爾：市場預期很重要，但並非驅動因素。

ECB Governing Council member KAZAKS said the bank faces a more delicate trade-off between containing inflation and supporting growth and that further tightening may be needed in December. Speaking to Bloomberg TV in Riga, the Latvian policymaker said judgments on tightening have become more nuanced and that from today’s perspective further tightening appears reasonable. He said the ECB is assessing how much more is required to rein in inflation that is currently above its 2% target; the bank has raised the deposit rate twice since February and officials are open to another December hike. KAZAKS added that a post‑US midterm decline in oil prices could help dampen upside inflation pressure.