October 8 Overnight News at a Glance

1. Samsung Electronics' third-quarter sales were 195.00 trillion won, estimated at 201.9 trillion won. Third-quarter operating profit was 107.40 trillion won, estimated at 108.67 trillion won. 2. U.S. Central Command stated on October 7 local time that earlier that day, a general of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed that "the Strait of Hormuz has been closed" and said the country has "complete control" over the strait; this claim is untrue. 3. The minutes of the Federal Reserve meeting showed that the September rate hike received unanimous support, and most participants favored one more rate increase within the year. 4. A senior Iranian official said that U.S. recognition of Iran's right to enrich uranium is Iran's "red line," and Iran will never make any concession on this point. 5. Japan Exchange Group, the parent company of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, said on the 7th that the constituent stocks of the Tokyo Stock Exchange Stock Price Index will begin adjustments at the end of October, and after the adjustment the number of constituent stocks will be reduced by about 40% to 986. 6. The Reserve Bank of India announced on the 7th that it decided to raise the repurchase rate, the benchmark interest rate, by 25 basis points to 5.50%. This is the first rate hike by the Indian central bank since February 2023. 7. Anthropic launched Claude Haiku 5.5, a sub-agent for programming work, suitable for large-scale, cost-sensitive tasks. At the same time, it cut the cache read price of Sonnet 5.5 by 50%, to $0.10 per million tokens. 8. According to a person familiar with the matter, Apollo Capital Management and several banks are in discussions with SpaceX to help facilitate the company's purchase of $40 billion worth of Nvidia graphics processors. 9. OpenAI fully launched GPT-6 globally for all ChatGPT free and paid users, officially replacing GPT-5.6 SOL and GPT-5.6 LUNA. 10. Broadcom is arranging more than $50 billion in financing for its custom artificial intelligence chip project developed in cooperation with OpenAI. People familiar with the matter said Apollo Global Management and Blackstone Group are among the lenders in talks to participate in this financing.