* BOJ raises rate to 0.75% in first hike since January, the new rate is at highest level in around three decades. The yen has weakened to an intraday low since the BOJ delivered a widely expected rate hike. Unless Governor Ueda sends some hawkish signals at a media briefing

* MetaX Integrated Circuits Shanghai Co. jumped as much as 755% in Shanghai after raising $585.8 million in an initial public offering. The company makes graphics processing units for artificial intelligence developers, a red-hot industry that’s growing at a rapid clip as consumers and businesses adopt AI services. MetaX’

* China's government has announced proposed guidelines to prevent manufacturers from pricing cars below the cost of production and to stop dealers from offering discounts that bring down vehicle prices below cost. The move is part of the government's crackdown on "involution" and aims to

* China Vanke Co., the last big survivor of the country’s yearslong property crunch, sent investors an innocuous-looking announcement about a $3.1 billion loan agreement with a state-owned shareholder. But the Nov. 2 statement contained a twist: Shenzhen Metro Group Co., which had given unwavering support to the developer

* As the stories that follow show, many investment pros are passionate game players and puzzle solvers. What they get from their pastimes varies widely. Poker teaches risk management and emotional regulation. Crosswords are exercises in pattern recognition and understanding how other people think. Sports, too, can be a mental training

* President Donald Trump decided to let Nvidia Corp. sell its H200 artificial intelligence chips to China after concluding the move carried a lower security risk because the company’s Chinese archrival, Huawei Technologies Co., already offers AI systems with comparable performance, according to a person familiar with the deliberations. BB

* President Donald Trump granted Nvidia Corp. permission to ship its H200 artificial intelligence chip to China in exchange for a 25% surcharge. The decision allows Nvidia to potentially regain billions of dollars in lost business from the Chinese market, and also makes chipmakers such as Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro