German Chancellor Merz says supporting Ukraine is in Germany's own interest.

NVIDIA's board is meeting to consider removing CEO Jensen Huang after another disclosed clip about his relationship with a directly reporting executive heightened investor concern. NVIDIA shares fell, contributing to more than half of the decline in Nasdaq-100 futures; Nasdaq-100 futures were down 0.6% and S&P 500 futures down 0.3%. Continued weakness could erase over $200bn of NVIDIA market value. The sell-off hit AI-linked names; cloud-computing specialist CoreWeave reversed about 5% after Wednesday gains, while competitors Broadcom and AMD advanced.

The Hengqin checkpoint under the Zhuhai Border Inspection General Station reported year-to-date through 16:00 on Nov. 12 vehicle crossings exceeded 4.00 million, up 36.2% YoY. This is the first calendar year since the port opened to breach 4 million crossings, placing Hengqin third nationwide by vehicle traffic. Macau-licensed single-plate vehicles accounted for about 2.67 million crossings, or 66.7% of the total. Expansion of Hengqin residents commuting to work in Macau and more frequent trips for family, medical and shopping purposes are cited as the main drivers of the traffic increase.