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KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 6 (Reuters) – Malaysian palm oil futures declined on Monday, dragged down by profit-taking, though concerns over a drop in output supported prices. The benchmark palm oil contract for December delivery on the Bursa Malaysia Derivatives Exchange slid 32 ringgit, or 0.72%, to 4,410 ringgit ($1,047.01) a metric ton at the midday break. It ended Friday 0.09% lower at 4,442 ringgit. Crude palm oil futures also fell on profit-taking amid strong market talk of a possibility that India may raise import duties on vegetable oils, said Anilkumar Bagani, head of research at Mumbai-based vegetable oil broker Sunvin Group. There are concerns over the lower-than-expected reduction in Malaysian palm oil production, Bagani added. The Malaysian palm oil board (MPOB) is expected to release its supply and demand data for September on October 10. Oil prices rose about 1.5% after OPEC+ announced a more modest monthly increase in production than expected, tempering some concerns about supply additions, though analysts expect near-term gains to be capped by a soft demand outlook. Stronger crude oil futures make palm a more attractive option for biodiesel feedstock. Soyoil prices on the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) gained 0.6%. The Dalian Commodity Exchange is closed from October 1 to 8 on account of public holidays. Palm oil tracks the price movements of rival edible oils as it competes for a share of the global vegetable oils market. The ringgit, palm's currency of trade, weakened 0.14% against the dollar, making the commodity slightly cheaper for buyers holding foreign currencies. ($1 = 4.2120 ringgit) (Reporting by Ashley Tang; Editing by Sumana Nandy)

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(Corrects to remove reference to profit in headline and paragraph 1) Oct 6 (Reuters) – Luxury carmaker Aston Martin said on Monday it expects its fiscal year 2025 adjusted earnings before interest and tax to come below the lower end of market consensus range, citing a challenging macroeconomic environment and the impact of tariffs. (Reporting by Raechel Thankam Job in Bengaluru; Editing by Subhranshu Sahu)

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By Summer Zhen HONG KONG, Oct 6 (Reuters) – Hedge fund WorldQuant said its flagship quantitative competition attracted a record number of entrants this year, as wider use of artificial intelligence lowered barriers for university students to develop quantitative trading models. WorldQuant selected four winners last week, from a record 80,000 university participants, doubling the size from last year. The rise of AI has made it easier for students from different backgrounds to develop trading algorithms, boosting participation in quant contests that are fast becoming key talent pipelines for some of the world's largest hedge funds. "The interesting difference this year from previous years was there were a lot of teams had only one person," Igor Tulchinsky, founder and chairman of WorldQuant, which manages over $7 billion in assets, told Reuters. "And I think a lot of people are using AI and language models to help them." Tulchinsky noted some teams this year have been able to read documents, evaluate ideas, and run simulations in a fully automated way by using AI agents. Organised by WorldQuant, one of the world's largest quant funds and a spin-off of Millennium Management, the International Quant Championship (IQC) tests who can best use mathematical models to predict the future price movements of various financial instruments. MinKyeom Kim from the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology in South Korea claimed the top spot, according to WorldQuant. The rest of the winners are from India, Kenya and Taiwan. Quant hedge funds managing over $1 billion saw their overall assets increase by $44 billion in the first half of 2025, With Intelligence data shows, driven by strong returns and inflows. Tulchinsky, the Belarusian-born U.S. hedge fund billionaire, said WorldQuant is focusing on developing agentic systems – autonomous AI systems that can independently analyze markets and make investment decisions. The firm has a goal of having one million AI agents in the next few years. (Reporting by Summer Zhen; Editing by Lincoln Feast.)

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(Corrects paragraph 5 to say Lissu has pleaded not guilty) DAR ES SALAAM, Oct 6 (Reuters) – Tanzanian opposition leader Tundu Lissu will go on trial on Monday for treason, weeks before the East African country holds an election that his party has been barred from contesting. Lissu, who came second in the last presidential poll in 2020, was arrested in April and charged with treason over what prosecutors said was a speech calling on the public to rebel and disrupt the elections later this month. Lissu had vowed to boycott the vote unless significant reforms were made to an electoral process which he said favours the Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party of President Samia Suluhu Hassan, which has been in power since independence in 1961. Lissu, who leads the CHADEMA opposition party, survived being shot 16 times in an assassination attempt in 2017. No one has ever been charged in the case. He has pleaded not guilty in the treason case, and his lawyer has said the charges are politically motivated. The court has banned live coverage of the proceedings on a request by the state prosecutor, who said it was necessary to conceal the identities of their witnesses. His detention as well as alleged abductions of government critics in the last year have shone a spotlight on the human rights record of Hassan, who is widely expected to win a landslide re-election. Tanzania's electoral commission barred CHADEMA in April from participating in the October 28 election after the party failed to sign a code of conduct document. The commission also disqualified the leader of Tanzania's second-largest opposition party from running for president, leaving only candidates from minor parties to challenge Hassan. Hassan won plaudits after coming to power in 2021 for easing repression of political opponents and censorship of the media that proliferated under her predecessor, John Magufuli, who died in office. But she has faced mounting criticism from human rights activists over the alleged abductions and arrests of other political opponents. Hassan has said her government is committed to respecting human rights and ordered an investigation into reports of abductions last year. No official findings have been made public. (Writing by Hereward Holland; Editing by Aaron Ross, William Maclean)

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Oct 6 (Reuters) – China Jicheng Holdings Ltd: * JICHENG INVESTMENT SELLS 29.85% STAKE OF CO FOR HK$74.6 MILLION Further company coverage:

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Oct 6 (Reuters) – Finansinspektionen: * SAID ON FRIDAY CHAIRMAN OF SYSTEMAIR AKTIEBOLAG BOARD PATRIK NOLÅKER ACQUIRED SEK 800,000 WORTH OF CO'S SHARE ON OCT 3-FINANSINSPEKTIONEN Source text for Workspace: Further company coverage: (Gdansk Newsroom)

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(Adds details; paragraphs 4-5) NEW DELHI, Oct 6 (Reuters) – A hospital blaze caused by a suspected short-circuit killed at least six patients in a trauma centre at the largest state-run hospital in India's northwestern city of Jaipur, and injured five, officials said on Monday. The fire began in the intensive care unit (ICU) of the Sawai Man Singh Hospital, "releasing toxic gases", hospital official Anurag Dhakad told the ANI news agency, adding that a short-circuit was the suspected cause. "Five patients are still critical," he said, while 13 had been safely evacuated from the two wards of the hospital in the capital of Rajasthan, which draws patients from across the desert state. Fire brigade teams arrived within 20 minutes after the fire began late on Sunday in the neurosurgery ICU, hospital superintendent Sushil Kumar Bhati told the agency. Most of the hospital equipment was gutted in the roughly two hours it took to bring the fire under control, however, broadcaster NDTV said. Jaipur Police chief Biju George Joseph said a forensic investigation would determine the exact cause. The government of Rajasthan, whose capital is Jaipur, has set up a panel to investigate the cause, ANI said. It will study the hospital's firefighting arrangements and the management's response, as well as steps to avoid similar incidents, the agency added. Similar hospital fires in India have been blamed on short circuits in electronic equipment. Ten newborns died from burns and suffocation after a fire in November at a neonatal intensive care unit in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. In May 2024, six newborns died in a fire at a baby care hospital in New Delhi, the capital. (Reporting by Surbhi Misra and Sakshi Dayal in New Delhi; Editing by Saad Sayeed and Clarence Fernandez)

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Oct 6 (Reuters) – Global Uranium and Enrichment Ltd : * SNOW LAKE AND GLOBAL URANIUM AGREE COMBINATION * GLOBAL URANIUM SHAREHOLDERS WILL RECEIVE A$0.0968 IN SNOW LAKE SHARES FOR EACH GUE SHARE HELD * CONSIDERATION IMPLIES AN EQUITY VALUE FOR GLOBAL URANIUM OF A$44.5 MILLION * INDEPENDENT GUE BOARD UNANIMOUSLY RECOMMENDED GUE SECURITYHOLDERS VOTE IN FAVOUR OF SCHEMES Further company coverage:

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* Vietnam Q3 GDP up 8.23%, supporting government growth target * Exports to US fall for second straight month as tariffs bite * Footwear exports to US down 27% in September from August (Writes through adding footwear exports, FDI) By Khanh Vu and Phuong Nguyen HANOI, Oct 6 (Reuters) – Vietnam's economy accelerated in the third quarter, despite a 20% U.S. tariff in force since August 7 that is slowing Vietnamese exports to the United States, especially of footwear and textiles, government data showed on Monday. Gross domestic product in the Southeast Asia nation rose 8.23% in the July-September period from a year earlier, accelerating from an upwardly revised 8.19% in the second quarter. The acceleration supports the Vietnamese government's target of 8.3%-8.5% expansion this year, but appears at odds with forecasts from international organisations. The World Bank projects 6.6% growth this year, while the International Monetary Fund estimates 6.5%. Growth was driven by foreign investment and rising exports, which continued to increase in the third quarter from a year earlier despite U.S. tariffs that took effect in early August. However, monthly data showed a slowdown, with September exports down 1.7% from August. Shipments to the United States, Vietnam's main market, fell 1.4% compared to August, marking the second consecutive monthly drop, according to data from Vietnam's statistics agency. FOOTWEAR EXPORTS TO US DOWN Among industrial sectors that saw a drop in exports to the U.S., footwear was the hardest hit, recording a 27% drop in September from August, data from the customs department showed. Vietnam is home to large manufacturing operations of big footwear multinationals, including Nike, Adidas , and Puma, which produce a large part of their global output of shoes through suppliers in Vietnam. Textile and garment exports to the United States fell 20%, but rising shipments of coffee, chemicals and some electronics partly offset those losses. Compared to a year earlier exports to the United States increased by 38%. Total exports over the July-September period rose 18.4% from a year earlier to $128.57 billion, while imports jumped 20.2% to $119.66 billion, resulting in a trade surplus of $8.91 billion, the statistics office said. Industrial production rose 9.1% in the first nine months of this year from a year earlier, while foreign investment inflows rose 8.5% on the year to $18.8 billion, the highest in five years. TOURISM, LENDING, CONSUMERS SUPPORT GROWTH Vietnam's stock market rose 2% on Monday after the economic data was released. Growth was helped by a booming tourism sector, with foreign arrivals to the country in the first nine months of this year up 21.5% compared to the same period in 2024, for a total of 15.4 million. A splurge in lending is also supporting economic expansion, with the central bank expecting credit to increase by 19% to 20% this year. Retail sales increased 11.3%, while consumer prices in September rose 3.38% from a year earlier, below a target of 4.5% to 5.0% this year. (Reporting by Khanh Vu, Phuong Nguyen and Francesco Guarascio; Editing by David Stanway and Kate Mayberry)

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Oct 5 (Reuters) – The following are the top stories on the New York Times business pages. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy. – Costco members with a valid prescription can access a four-week supply of Novo Nordisk's popular weight-loss drugs Ozempic or Wegovy for $499 out of pocket, as part of Costco's initiative to make these medications available through its warehouse chain. – Eight members of the OPEC+ oil producers group said on Sunday that they would raise their output of crude by a modest 137,000 barrels a day in November. – A federal judge on Sunday night blocked the Trump administration from deploying hundreds of out-of-state National Guard troops to Oregon, even as President Trump turned to the Texas Guard in a widening hunt for military forces to send to Democratic cities. – President Trump remained focused on blaming Democrats and repeating his threats to carry out mass firings of federal workers on Sunday, the fifth day of the government shutdown. (Compiled by Bengaluru newsroom)

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